Directness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIRECTNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of being direct
• the quality of being plain and straightforward
• the quality of proceeding in a straight line without deflection
• The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
• trueness of course toward a goal
• the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the character of being accurate in course or aim

Words related to DIRECTNESS

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Words that contain DIRECTNESS

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How to use DIRECTNESS in a sentence

• The second tendency of the age was toward directness and simplicity of expression, and to this excellent tendency our literature is greatly indebted.
• But curiously enough, this does not always work out with mathematical directness.
• Simplicity, clearness, directness are, therefore, the great virtues of thought and style.
• The characteristic sign of a mind of the highest standard is the directness of its judgment.
• With equally blunt directness he declared that he would not permit it.
• This is a portion of the country that, Heaven be praised! still retains some of the good old-fashioned directness and simplicity.
• It was as if he knew her and was deliberately insulting her in a stare that was more than impudent in its directness.
• On this basis he began to reason with a crazy directness.
• The vast, brutal directness of the deed was out of place and incongruous at this end-of-the-century time.
• The pictures of birds and beasts, chiselled in the hard polished granite, have a purity of form and line, a directness of expression and intention, which is most impressive.
• She regarded him searchingly, but the simple directness of his gaze caused her own eyes to falter, and she turned into the house with a deep breath that was very like a sigh.
• He sat squarely in his seat throughout the uproar, watching the stage with piercing grey eyes that never varied in their stern directness.
• She had loved him simply and naturally, with an almost primitive directness.
• They gazed straight across at her with startling directness.
• But they are very interesting in their simple directness.
• There is a vigor and directness in his style which, indeed, seem rather Norwegian than Shakespearean, but which are, nevertheless, entirely convincing.
• Scheffer possessed this power in a remarkable degree, but it was united to a directness and truth of feeling which made his art the perfection of natural expression.
• There is a certain frankness and directness about her that perhaps belong to her artist nature.
• I was not aware at the time of this failing of his, and the move was executed with such deliberate directness that I thought he must have forgotten something.
• They have a directness of mind that is the result of unconscious training.
• The account of his visit to Europe is told with most engaging directness and simplicity, and though the book has no permanent value, it affords much entertainment for the time.
• The Classical school taught simplicity, directness, and modesty of speech.
• There was a straight-forward directness in the gaze of his blue eyes.
• From abstractions of church towers and street paving they went, with the directness of the young, to themselves.
• We go to the saints with the same directness and the same simplicity with which we go to the living members of the Body, living, I mean in the Church on earth.
• While she danced with him, she found his brisk directness not unpleasing.
• The Republicans, and Lincoln personally, with equal directness acknowledged the supremacy of the Constitution.
• She volunteered little, but, when directly addressed, answered in a gentle, hesitating voice that veiled the directness, the conviction, of her replies.
• The second great note in Greek medicine illustrates the directness with which they went to the very heart of the matter.
• Its simplicity, directness, and truth of feeling are quite beyond praise.
• He was invited to the platform and, with his usual directness and force, at once assailed what Mr Snellgrove had advanced.

Similar words containing DIRECTNES without suffix s

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