Crossword-Solution: INDIRECTNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Indirectness | n. | The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. |
| Indirectness | n. | Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “INDIRECTNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the state of being indirect | 1 answer |
| having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal | 1 answer |
| tortuousness | 15 answers |
| subtext | 15 answers |
| obliqueness | 16 answers |
| implicitness | 16 answers |
| Twisty? | 16 answers |
| roundabout nature | 16 answers |
| Zig-zagging | 17 answers |
| indirect nature | 17 answers |
| circuitousness | 18 answers |
| obliquity | 19 answers |
| winding | 31 answers |
| roundabout | 40 answers |
| gradient | 47 answers |
| Twisting | 55 answers |
| Circa | 64 answers |
| tortuous | 67 answers |
| Around | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
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Sentences with INDIRECTNESS (5)
Anything was better than this constant indirectness of gaining his father's views through his mother.
The tones of her voice rose and fell, her facial convulsions, whether tending--one could scarce make out--to expression or REpression, succeeded each other by a law of their own; she was embarrassed at nothing and at everything, frightened at everything and at nothing, and she approached objects, subjects, the simplest questions and answers and the whole material of intercourse, either with the indirectness of terror or with the violence of despair.
The transition from directness and immediateness to indirectness and mediation, along with the notions of space and time appropriated in the process, is in many ways reflected in the process of language constitution.
Indirectness implies awareness of a shared reference-the gesture, the sound, the word-that is simultaneously shared experience.
Within this pragmatic framework, a level of indirectness is constituted: confirmation, or what cybernetics identifies as feedback, in all biological processes.
Quotes with INDIRECTNESS (2)
In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the indirectness of experience. Though the experience is social, thoughts carry it into a singular space and it is this that causes the feelings of loneliness; or it is this that collides the feeling with the experience so that what is left is the solitude called loneliness.
... throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless theapproach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadyness to meet it. The indirectness has usually been physical, and always psychological.