1. Offensive boldness and assertiveness
   - bumptiousness, cockiness, pushiness 
2. An advanced stage
   "the forwardness of the harvest this year"; "the arts are in no kind of forwardness in this matter" 
3. Prompt willingness
   "he tried to explain his forwardness in battle"
   - readiness, eagerness, zeal

Derived forms: forwardnesses

See also: forward

Type of: assertiveness, earliness, self-assertiveness, willingness

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