indirectness

Definitions of indirectness
  1. noun
    having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal
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    antonyms:
    directness
    trueness of course toward a goal
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    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
    type of:
    characteristic, discriminant
    a distinguishing quality
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