[-NESS.] The quality of being straightforward.
1805. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 46. He … wins his easy way to the reader’s sympathy … by the straight-forwardness of his course.
1853. Landor, Last Fruit, Louis Philippe & Guizot, 14. The lover of straitforwardness and truth.
1871. Swinburne, Ess. & Stud. (1875), 293. In both plays there is a perfect unity of action, a perfect straightforwardness of design.
1911. A. C. Dixon, in The Fundamentals, V. 86. The Gospel writers … simply tell right out what they saw in all simplicity and straightforwardness.
