INDIRECTNESS

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Meaning:

Having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("indirectness" is a kind of...):

characteristic (a distinguishing quality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "indirectness"):

allusiveness (a quality characterized by indirect reference)

mediacy; mediateness (the quality of being mediate)

deviousness; obliqueness (the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly)

discursiveness (the quality of being discursive)

Antonym:

directness (trueness of course toward a goal)

Derivation:

indirect (not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination)

indirect (not as a direct effect or consequence)