straightforwardness

1. 1.

   the quality of being direct and straightforward

   “what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness”

   Synonymsdownrightness

   Broaderdirectness
2. 2.

   without hypocrisy

   “the singleness of his motives could not be questioned”

   Synonymssingleness

   Broadersincerity

Other forms of straightforwardness

plural

straightforwardnesses·

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 straightforwardness

What does straightforwardness mean?

straightforwardness means "the quality of being direct and straightforward". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in straightforwardness?

straightforwardness has 4 syllables: straight-for-ward-ness. The stress falls on "for".

What is another word for straightforwardness?

Close synonyms include downrightness, singleness. 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.

Is straightforwardness a common word?

straightforwardness 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.