Words and phrases that have a meaning related to indirectness: (127 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:
deviousness, discursiveness, mediacy, mediateness
More general:
Also try:characteristic
— Adjectives for indirectness: conventional, very, such, certain, true, same, greater, conversational, caledonian, subtle, characteristic, more...
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