Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The state or quality of being direct.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: candor, candour, candidness, frankness, forthrightness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: honesty, honestness
Narrower terms: ingenuousness
noun
trueness of course toward a goal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: straightness
Antonyms: indirectness
Broader terms: characteristic
Narrower terms: downrightness, straightforwardness, immediacy, immediateness, pointedness
History
Etymology tree English direct Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English directness From direct + -ness.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
