indirectnessn.
/ˌɪndᵻˈrɛk(t)nəs/, /ˌɪndʌɪˈrɛk(t)nəs/, U.S. /ˌɪndəˈrɛk(t)nəs/, /ˌɪnˌdaɪˈrɛk(t)nəs/ The quality of being indirect; want of directness or straightforwardness.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [noun]
crookednessc1380
deformityc1400
turningnessa1586
indirectiona1616
obliquitya1620
curvity1620
tortuosity1621
indirectness1628
unsinglenessa1658
unstraightness1693
tortuousness1824
underhandedness1884
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] > indirectness of course
indirectness1628
anfractuousness1727
ambagiousness1867
circuitousness1884
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > lack of straightforwardness or uprightness
crookednessc1380
turningnessa1586
indirectiona1616
obliquitya1620
curvity1620
tortuosity1621
indirectness1628
unuprightnessa1680
unstraightness1693
deviousness1727
tortuousness1824
obliqueness1877
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [noun]
circumquaque1546
circumduction1602
circumambulation1606
circuitya1626
indirectness1628
side wind1648
circumbendibus1681
ambagiosity1819
circumambulating1837
ambagiousness1867
circuitousness1869
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vii. 1581 Is thy Sov'raynes path Unequall? or is't rather thine which hath Such indirectnesse?
1654 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia: 2nd Pt. vii. §5. 142 The maligners of this doctrine of Purgatorie, have methinks, us'd a worse kind of indirectness in their exposure of it.
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 4 This very indirectness and subtilty is that which gives force and propriety to the example.
a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) iii. 159 Indirectness was..entirely foreign to his manly nature.
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