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INDIRECTNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("indirectness" is a kind of...):
characteristic (a distinguishing quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "indirectness"):
allusiveness (a quality characterized by indirect reference)
mediacy; mediateness (the quality of being mediate)
deviousness; obliqueness (the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly)
discursiveness (the quality of being discursive)
Antonym:
directness (trueness of course toward a goal)
Derivation:
indirect (not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination)
indirect (not as a direct effect or consequence)
