Meaning of FRANKNESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'frangknis
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- [n] the trait of being blunt and outspoken
- [n] the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
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| | Synonyms: | | candidness, candor, candour, forthrightness, outspokenness |
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| | See Also: | | bluffness, communicativeness, honestness, honesty, ingenuousness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Frank"ness\, n.
The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness;
fairness; liberality.
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| | Related Terms: | | accessibility, approachability, artlessness, austerity, baldness, bareness, big mouth, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor, coarseness, common speech, communicativeness, conversableness, directness, earthiness, effusion, effusiveness, extroversion, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, forthrightness, freedom, freeness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, genuineness, gift of gab, glibness, gregariousness, grossness, gush, gushiness, homespun, household words, ingenuousness, leanness, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, matter-of-factness, naturalness, openheartedness, openness, outgoingness, outspokenness, plain dealing, plain English, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, plainspokenness, prolixity, prosaicness, prosiness, raciness, rankness, rawness, restrainedness, roundness, rustic style, saltiness, severity, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, slush, soberness, sociability, spareness, spate of words, spiciness, starkness, straightforwardness, talkativeness, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, unconstraint, uncouthness, unimaginativeness, unpoeticalness, unrepression, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint, unrestriction, unreticence, unsecretiveness, unsuppression, untaciturnity, verbosity, vernacular, volubility, vulgarity, windiness |
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