noun
( -es )
1.
a. : the character of being true in course toward a target or goal
rivaling a hawk in directness of aim
stared at her youngest niece with concentrated directness — J.C.Snaith
b. : strict pertinence or distinct forthrightness : straightforwardness often with a degree of abruptness or brusqueness
his sledgehammer directness had often served him better than nice legal knowledge — Thomas Hardy
2. : closeness to actual experience and consequent vividness or incisiveness
described Ireland's troubles with a searing directness that has rarely been equalled — Time
3. : open frankness and naturalness : freedom from barriers of pretense and pretension and from adornment and prettiness
created an atmosphere of directness between herself and all men and women — Eden Phillpotts
what people take for rudeness is really directness — Ian Bevan