| 释义 |
ˌoutˈspokenness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being outspoken; frankness of speech.
1852S. G. Rowe Recoll. of R. R. Wormeley (1879) 113 The main feature of his character was openness, or, to coin a word, outspokenness. Whatever he thought he spoke right out. 1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. viii, But the very out-spokenness marked their innocence of any intention to hurt her delicacy. 1893A. V. Dicey Leap in Dark 194 You cannot from the nature of things combine the advantages of reticence and of outspokenness. |