MEANING
Openness in stating what one thinks or knows without concealment or evasiveness.
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- speak with frankness
- disarming frankness
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Her frankness relieved him until she turned it toward his own conduct.
He described the loss with a frankness absent from the official account.
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- frankness
Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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