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单词 directness
释义 di·rect·ness
noun
(-es)
1.
 a. : the character of being true in course toward a target or goal
  < rivaling a hawk in directness of aim >
  < stared at her youngest niece with concentrated directness — J.C.Snaith >
 b. : strict pertinence or distinct forthrightness : straightforwardness often with a degree of abruptness or brusqueness
  < his sledgehammer directness had often served him better than nice legal knowledge — Thomas Hardy >
2. : closeness to actual experience and consequent vividness or incisiveness
 < described Ireland's troubles with a searing directness that has rarely been equalled — Time >
3. : open frankness and naturalness : freedom from barriers of pretense and pretension and from adornment and prettiness
 < created an atmosphere of directness between herself and all men and women — Eden Phillpotts >
 < what people take for rudeness is really directness — Ian Bevan >
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