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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
Alice Morse Earle

Meaning of "directness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DIRECTNESS

directness  [daɪˈrɛktnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIRECTNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Directness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIRECTNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of directness in the English dictionary

The definition of directness in the dictionary is lack of ceremony; straightforwardness.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIRECTNESS


alertness
əˈlɜːtnɪs
appropriateness
əˈprəʊprɪɪtnɪs
brightness
ˈbraɪtnɪs
compactness
kəmˈpæktnɪs
completeness
kəmˈpliːtnɪs
correctness
kəˈrɛktnɪs
eyewitness
ˈaɪˌwɪtnɪs
fitness
ˈfɪtnɪs
greatness
ˈɡreɪtnɪs
hotness
ˈhɒtnɪs
indirectness
ˌɪndɪˈrektnɪs
lightness
ˈlaɪtnɪs
robustness
rəʊˈbʌstnɪs
shortness
ˈʃɔːtnɪs
softness
ˈsɒftnɪs
strictness
ˈstrɪktnɪs
succinctness
səkˈsɪŋktnɪs
tightness
ˈtaɪtnɪs
unperfectness
ʌnˈpɜːfɪktnɪs
witness
ˈwɪtnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIRECTNESS

direction finding
direction indicator
directional
directional drilling
directionality
directionless
directions
directive
directivity
directly
Directoire
director
director general
director of admissions
Director of Education
director of music
Director of Public Prosecutions
director of studies
director-general
director´s chair

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIRECTNESS

adeptness
aptness
aquafitness
bear witness
bluntness
business
deftness
expert witness
flatness
incorrectness
inertness
physical fitness
pleasantness
political correctness
promptness
quietness
sweetness
tartness
unfitness
vastness
wetness

Synonyms and antonyms of directness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DIRECTNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «directness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of directness

Translation of «directness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIRECTNESS

Find out the translation of directness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of directness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «directness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

直率
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

franqueza
570 millions of speakers

English

directness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सादगी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المباشرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прямота
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

directness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খোলাখুলি ভাব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

franchise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Langsung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Direktheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

率直さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바름
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Langsung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngay thẳng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

directness,
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दिग्दर्शन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

telaş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

immediatezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezpośredniość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прямота
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sinceritate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αμεσότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

direktheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

direkthet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

direkthet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of directness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIRECTNESS»

The term «directness» is regularly used and occupies the 95.854 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIRECTNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about directness

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4 QUOTES WITH «DIRECTNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word directness.
1
Joseph P. Bradley
The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.
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Alice Morse Earle
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
3
Chad Harbach
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
4
Ali Larter
There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIRECTNESS»

Discover the use of directness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to directness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, ...
By way of illustrating these points, the book opens up new lines of inquiry into a wide range of literary texts from Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, and the United States.
Roger D. Sell, Adam Borch, Inna Lindgren, 2013
2
American English: An Introduction
The general notion that will be used to describe the linguistic and nonlin- guistic phenomena under investigation in this chapter is "directness." The word direct is used here in two related senses. First, it is employed in the sense that a person ...
Zoltan Kovecses, 2000
3
Speech Acts in the History of English
Requests. and. directness. in. Early. Modern. English. trial. proceedings. and. play. texts,. 1640-1760. Jonathan. Culpeper. and. Dawn. Archer. 1. Introduction Historical (or diachronic) speech act analysis has been gathering momentum in ...
Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen, 2008
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Cross-cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction
The terms 'directness' and 'indirectness' are often used in linguistic descriptions as if they were self-explanatory. In fact, however, they are applied to totally different phenomena, which are shaped by totally different values. The confusion  ...
Anna Wierzbicka, 2003
5
Gender and Politeness
If we examine examples of directness in conversation, especially where those perceptions of directness have led to assessments of impoliteness being made, we can see that the judgement of directness is a subjective one, rather than ...
Sara Mills, 2003
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Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A Contrastive ...
The results also show that Uruguayans employ higher levels of directness than the British and that there is a negative correlation between directness levels and social distance. In other words, the more familiar the interlocutors the more direct  ...
Rosina Márquez-Reiter, 2000
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Noncognitive Skills and Their Development: Special Issue of ...
Figure 3 Assignment: The Within-Job Returns to a Worker's Relative Effectiveness in Directness and the Relative Importance of Directness in the Job Note: n1⁄4277. The relative importance of directness is determined by dividing the individual ...
Thomas J. Kniesner, 2010
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The Discourse of Business Negotiation
Furthermore, this Dutch directness seemed to influence the outcome in a negative manner (see van der Wijst-Ulijn 1991). Interviews with businesspeople from various European countries confirmed the important role that differences in ...
Konrad Ehlich, Johannes Wagner, 1995
9
The Clinical Erich Fromm: Personal Accounts and Papers on ...
Directness. in. Therapy. Harold. B. Davis. My experience with Fromm was a limited one, primarily as a student, hearing him lecture, and reading most, if not all, of his works. Despite the limited contact, he had a strong influence on my ...
Rainer Funk, 2009
10
Living in the USA
Directness. Just as our degree of individual freedom sometimes seems excessive and therefore uncomfortable to many foreign visitors, non-American attitudes toward complete honesty seem insincere and uncertain to Americans. In many ...
Alison Lanier, Jef Davis, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIRECTNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term directness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Greek debt crisis: Mr Varoufakis's exit stage left - BBC News
His words seemed fresh - his directness, his ability to engage with the question - and, impressively in a foreign language, to use language both ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
4 Strategies to Improve How You Deal With Conflict - Entrepreneur
Too much directness and it's seen as rude, not enough and it's passive-aggressive. Communication is important but being too expressive can ... «Entrepreneur, Jul 15»
3
The Wasted Gift of Donald Trump - The New York Times
Trump's hold on voters stems largely from his lack of any filter and from his directness, traits that they don't see in establishment candidates. «New York Times, Jul 15»
4
Modi Raises Lakhvi Issue with Xi - The New Indian Express
I am sure the Chinese side was impressed by the clarity and directness with which he communicated our concerns,” said Foreign Secretary ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
5
Eleni Mandell Plays Strip Poker in 'Someone to Love Like You …
... airy tune, which mixes her knack for classic pop hooks with a directness of tone inspired by vintage country performers such as Roger Miller. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
6
KOEDYKER: Everyone needs encouragement | Grand Haven Tribune
In my judgment –which I am sure we would all agree is authoritative – the same merits distinguish both books: clarity of statement, directness, ... «Grand Haven Tribune, Jul 15»
7
PM Modi raises concern on China's support for Pak over Lakhvi's …
"I am sure the Chinese side was impressed by the clarity and directness with which he communicated our concerns. The substance of ... «ANINEWS, Jul 15»
8
PM Modi meets President Xi, raises issue of China's support to …
"I can assume that the Chinese side was impressed with the clarity and directness in which it was conveyed. It was felt that we should keep ... «Zee News, Jul 15»
9
Modi conveys to Xi India's concerns on China's action on Lakhvi
Asked about the response, “I can assume that the Chinese side was impressed with the clarity and directness in which it was conveyed. «Business Standard, Jul 15»
10
An open letter to Donald Trump - The Ruminator - Blogs - Times Union
... I've been drawn to Latin culture, attracted to a certain passion and directness, a refreshing contrast to my own tendency to avoid confrontation ... «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»

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