OUTSPOKENNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outspokenness mean? 

• OUTSPOKENNESS (noun)
  The noun OUTSPOKENNESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being blunt and outspoken

  Familiarity information: OUTSPOKENNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTSPOKENNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being blunt and outspoken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

frankness; outspokenness

Hypernyms ("outspokenness" is a kind of...):

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outspokenness"):

bluffness (good-natured frankness)

Derivation:

outspoken (given to expressing yourself freely or insistently)

outspoken (characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion)