'Frankness' definitions:
Definition of 'frankness'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech [syn: candor, candour, candidness, frankness, directness, forthrightness]
noun
The trait of being blunt and outspoken [syn: frankness, outspokenness]
Definition of 'Frankness'
From: GCIDE
- Frankness \Frank"ness\, n. The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'frankness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accessibility,
- approachability,
- artlessness,
- austerity,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- big mouth,
- bluffness,
- bluntness,
- broadness,
- brusqueness,
- candidness,
- candor,
- coarseness,
- common speech,
- communicativeness,
- conversableness,
- directness,
- earthiness,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- extroversion,
- flow of words,
- flowing tongue,
- fluency,
- fluent tongue,
- flux de bouche,
- flux de paroles,
- flux of words,
- forthrightness,
- freedom,
- freeness,
- garrulity,
- garrulousness,
- gassiness,
- genuineness,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- gregariousness,
- grossness,
- gush,
- gushiness,
- homespun,
- household words,
- ingenuousness,
- leanness,
- long-windedness,
- loose tongue,
- loquaciousness,
- loquacity,
- matter-of-factness,
- naturalness,
- openheartedness,
- openness,
- outgoingness,
- outspokenness,
- plain dealing,
- plain English,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- plainspokenness,
- prolixity,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- raciness,
- rankness,
- rawness,
- restrainedness,
- roundness,
- rustic style,
- saltiness,
- severity,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- sincerity,
- slush,
- soberness,
- sociability,
- spareness,
- spate of words,
- spiciness,
- starkness,
- straightforwardness,
- talkativeness,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- unconstraint,
- uncouthness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unrepression,
- unreserve,
- unreservedness,
- unrestraint,
- unrestriction,
- unreticence,
- unsecretiveness,
- unsuppression,
- untaciturnity,
- verbosity,
- vernacular,
- volubility,
- vulgarity,
- windiness
Words containing 'Frankness'
- Frank,
- Franking,
- Frankly,
- franked,
- frank baum,
- frank breech,
- frank capra,
- frank cooper,
- frank harris,
- frank norris,
- frank sinatra,
- frank stella,
- frank stockton,
- frank tenements,
- frank whittle,
- franking machine,
- franking privilege,
- salian frank,
- Frank-chase,
- Frank-fee,
- Frank-law,
- Frank-marriage,
- cecil frank powell,
- frank breech delivery,
- frank lloyd wright,
- frank morrison spillane,
- frank philip stella,
- frank winfield woolworth,
- lyman frank brown,
- sir frank whittle,
- stanley frank musial,
- willard frank libby,
- angus frank johnstone wilson