unreservednessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈzəːvᵻdnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈzərvədnəs/ The quality of being unreserved; absence of or freedom from reserve, restraint, or inhibition.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] > freedom from conditions
absoluteness1603
unreservednessa1631
inconditionateness1693
the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > straightforwardness or frankness
openness1605
open-heartedness1611
ingenuity1614
frankness1668
unreservedness1713
straightforwardness1805
yaefauldness1864
outrightness1865
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [noun] > frankness, straightforwardness > specifically in speech
frankness1553
freedom1585
apertness1604
ingenuity1614
unreservedness1713
unreserve1717
candour1769
free-spokenness1858
a1631 R. Bolton Foure Last Things (1632) 72 An universall resignation of themselves with unreservednesse and zeale to all the world, and will and waies of God.
1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1659) 23 The tendernesse and unreserv'dnesse of his Love.
1713 A. Pope Corr. 14 Dec. (1956) I. 202 I am conscious I write with more unreservedness than ever man wrote, or perhaps talk'd to another.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxviii. 226 An Unreservedness of Air and Behaviour, that I had not before seen so becoming.
1821 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 391 I will do so with all unreservedness, but I hope with all due civility.
1844 A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold I. Pref. p. viii The familiarity and unreservedness of epistolary intercourse.
1929 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 15 564 He..possesses the frankness, the unreservedness about hidden things that seem to be characteristic of the youth movement of today.
1968 Jrnl. Rehabilit. Sept. 29/3 Books which deal with the entire range of human experience, with simplicity and unreservedness.
2008 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 17 Oct. She moved with a quiet and playful unreservedness, rolling her torso or placing her feet against the wall.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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