directness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: di=rect=ness

THESAURUS

directness

Atticism, appropriateness, artlessness, austerity, baldness, bareness, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor, chasteness, chastity, childlikeness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clear-cutness, clearness, coherence, comeliness, common speech, connectedness, consistency, correctness, crystallinity, definition, dignity, discrimination, distinction, distinctness, ease, elegance, elegancy, explicitness, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fittingness, flatness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, forthrightness, frankness, freedom, freeness, genuineness, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, guilelessness, homespun, horizontalness, household words, inartificiality, ingenuousness, innocence, leanness, limpidity, lineality, linearity, lucidity, matter-of-factness, naiveness, naivete, naivety, naturalness, neatness, openheartedness, openness, outspokenness, pellucidity, perspicuity, plain English, plain dealing, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, plainspokenness, polish, propriety, prosaicness, prosiness, purity, rectilinearity, refinement, restrainedness, restraint, roundness, rustic style, seemliness, severity, simpleheartedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness of heart, smoothness, soberness, spareness, starkness, straightforwardness, straightness, structure, taste, tastefulness, terseness, transparency, transpicuity, trustfulness, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, unambiguousness, unassumingness, unconstraint, unequivocalness, unguardedness, unimaginativeness, unmistakableness, unpoeticalness, unpretentiousness, unreserve, unrestraint, unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, unsuspiciousness, unswervingness, unwariness, vernacular, verticalness

ROGET THESAURUS

directness

Straightness

N straightness, rectilinearity, directness, inflexibility, straight line, right line, direct line, short cut, straight, rectilinear, rectilineal, direct, even, right, true, in a line, unbent, virgate, undeviating, unturned, undistorted, unswerving, straight as an arrow, inflexible, laser-straight, ramrod-straight.