franknessnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈfræŋk.nəs/us/ˈfræŋk.nəs/honesty:
A lot more frankness is needed in sex education if we are to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- abrupt
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- not pull any/your punches idiom
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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