Dictionary Definition
frankness
Noun
1 the quality of being honest and straightforward
in attitude and speech [syn: candor, candour, candidness, forthrightness]
2 the trait of being blunt and outspoken [syn:
outspokenness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈfɹæŋknɛs/, /"fr
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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
English, plain dealing, 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