Directness: alternatives and connections

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; di…

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Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.

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The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

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The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

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The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.

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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Straight forward; in a straight direction.

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Straight forward; in a straight direction.

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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.

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Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.

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The quality of being candid.

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Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.

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Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.

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The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

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The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.

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The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

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The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

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