Nearby Words
Directness
[dih-rekt, dahy-] 
| Main Entry: |
candor
[kan-der]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, directness, fairness, forthrightness, frankness, glasnost, guilelessness, honesty, impartiality, ingenuousness, naiveté, openness, outspokenness, probity, simplicity, sincerity, straightforwardness, truthfulness, unequivocalness, uprightness, veracity |
| Antonyms: | artifice, deception, falsehood, guile, lying |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy attitude |
| Synonyms: | abandon, boldness, brazenness, candor, directness, disrespect, ease, facility, familiarity, forthrightness, forwardness, frankness, impertinence, informality, ingenuousness, lack of reserve, lack of restraint, laxity, license, openness, overfamiliarity, presumption, readiness, spontaneity, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, limitation, reserve, restraint, restriction |
| Main Entry: | simplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of complication, |
| Synonyms: | candor, chastity, clarity, classicality, clean lines, clearness, directness, ease, easiness, elementariness, guilelessness, homogeneity, ingenuousness, innocence, integrity, lack of adornment, modesty, monotony, naiveté, naturalness, obviousness, openness, plainness, primitiveness, purity, restraint, severity, singleness, sophistication artlessness, straightforwardness, uniformity, unity |
| Antonyms: | complexity, complication, difficultness, difficulty |
| Main Entry: | limpidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | limpidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | lucidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | pellucidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | pellucidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | perspicuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Notes: | perspicacity means shrewdness and applies to people; perspicuity means easily understood and applies to things |
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