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frankness
CIDE DICTIONARY
frankness, n.
The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
frankness
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 English, plain dealing, 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, windinessFor further exploring for "frankness" in Webster Dictionary Online