forwardnessnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈfɔː.wəd.nəs/us/ˈfɔːr.wɚd.nəs/disapprovingthe quality of being confident and honest in a way that ignores the usual social rules and might seem rude
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Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- abrupt
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- not pull any/your punches idiom
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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Confidence & self-assurance
Examples from literature
- Hence she has been praised by some for her courage, and blamed by others for her forwardness.
- Such indeed is the force of prejudice, that what was called spirit and wit in him, was cruelly repressed as forwardness in me.
- Suddenly meeting The clear eyes, he smiled, and then shrank inwardly at his forwardness.
- They showed neither forwardness nor timidity, but greeted each other and their host with grown-up dignity and formality.
- Yet there's nothing of forwardness, nothing of impertinence.