frankness

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

directness candor candour forthrightness candidness outspokenness freedom integrity simplicity innocence honesty fairness openness sincerity naturalness
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

honesty communicativeness honestness

Hyponyms

ingenuousness bluffness

Phrases with the word

brutal frankness

Examples

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. Tennessee Williams

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. Henrik Ibsen

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. Alexander Smith

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. Alexander von Humboldt

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. André Maurois

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. Georg Brandes

Close letter words and terms

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