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Definition of Indirectness
1. Noun. Having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal.
Specialized synonyms: Allusiveness, Mediacy, Mediateness, Deviousness, Obliqueness, Discursiveness
Antonyms: Directness
Derivative terms: Indirect, Indirect
Definition of Indirectness
1. n. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
Definition of Indirectness
1. Noun. The condition of being indirect ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Indirectness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indirectness
Literary usage of Indirectness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1906)
"indirectness of experimental results. The object of experimental investigations
of the behaviour of elastic bodies may be said to be the discovery of ..."
2. The Science of Rhetoric: An Introduction to the Laws of Effective Discourse by David Jayne Hill (1877)
"(8) indirectness.—In order to convince the understanding, it is necessary to keep
before the mind the precise point to be established. ..."
3. Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the by James Ward (1903)
"... IV MOLECULAR MECHANICS : ITS indirectness Distinction of mass and molecule.
The molecule not a 'minute body.'' The advance from abstract mechanics to ..."
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