indirectness

1. 1.

   having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal

   Antonymsdirectness

   Broadercharacteristic

   Narrowerallusivenessmediacydeviousnessdiscursiveness

Other forms of indirectness

plural

indirectnesses·

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 indirectness

What does indirectness mean?

indirectness means "having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal".

How many syllables are in indirectness?

indirectness has 4 syllables: in-di-rect-ness. The stress falls on "di".

What is the opposite of indirectness?

The recorded antonyms are directness.

Is indirectness a common word?

indirectness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.