forthrightness
noun
forthrightness is a noun meaning “The characteristic or quality of being forthright” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-T-H-R-I-G-H-T-N-E-S-S and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does forthrightness mean?
noun
- 1
The characteristic or quality of being forthright
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce forthrightness?
- US
Forthrightness has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-forthrightness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is forthrightness?
Forthrightness appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does forthrightness come from?
From Middle English forthrightnesse, forþriȝtnesse, equivalent to forthright + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).