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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Directness \Di*rect"ness\, n.
     The quality of being direct; straightness;
     straightforwardness; immediateness.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  directness
       n : trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in
           directness of aim" [syn: {straightness}] [ant: {indirectness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

















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