Words and phrases that have a meaning related to indirectness:  (127 results)
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 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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