directness

Other forms of directness

plural

directnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about directness

What does directness mean?

directness means "trueness of course toward a goal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in directness?

directness has 3 syllables: di-rect-ness. The stress falls on "rect". In IPA it is /dɚˈɛktnəs/.

What is another word for directness?

Close synonyms include straightness, candor, candour, candidness, frankness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of directness?

The recorded antonyms are indirectness.

Is directness a common word?

directness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with directness?

1 word rhymes with directness. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.