Meaning & use
frankness
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The quality of being open, honest, and direct in speech or manner.
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Her frankness about the company's financial troubles surprised the shareholders.
I appreciated his frankness, even though the feedback was hard to hear.
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Frankness comes from 'frank,' which originally referred to the Franks, a Germanic people whose free status in medieval Gaul gave the word its later sense of open and unrestrained speech.
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