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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to indirectness:   (129 results)

Antonyms:
directness, straightness

Often used in the same context:
prolixity, archaism, blatancy, allusiveness, pithiness, ephemerality, incommensurability, concreteness, obliqueness, indeterminacy, alterity, inconstancy, concision, nebulousness, ambiguousness, pedantry, abstractness, punctiliousness, terseness, animality, cogency, circumlocution, plainness, perspicuity, factuality, wordiness, evanescence, casuistry, wishfulness, nabokovian, literalness, didacticism, impenetrability, deracination, abjection, academicism, solitariness, elide, inarticulateness, quiddity, profundity, directness, infelicities, blitheness, contemporaneity, interpenetration, doubleness, metafiction, metonymy, intertextuality, attitudinizing, absoluteness, essentialness, unintelligibility, joylessness, nuance, pompousness, staginess, inscrutability, instrumentalism, objective correlative, subjectivism, corporeality, subtlety, emotiveness, threnody, incomprehensibility, finitude, wilfulness, insubstantiality, acerbity, commonplaces, ineffectuality, spatiality, immanence, contrariness, sublimity, hieratic, dialectics, versification, unnaturalness, charlatanry, hybridity, dilettantism, speciousness, ratiocination, literalism, illogicality, limitlessness, foregrounding, furtiveness, inconsequentiality, endlessness, stylisation, monism, journalese, whimsicality, reification, clownishness, windiness, amour propre, perceiver, indirection, finesse, awkwardness, equivocation, reticence, vagueness, artificiality, inconsistency, artifice, ambiguity, closeness, duplicity, evasiveness, lightness, pliancy, contrariety, crudeness, delicacy

More specific:
allusiveness, deviousness, discursiveness, mediacy, mediateness, obliqueness

More general:
characteristic

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— Adjectives for indirectness: conventional, very, such, certain, true, same, greater, conversational, caledonian, subtle, characteristic, more...

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