All directness antonyms

noun directness

• difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
• slavery — the condition of a slave; bondage.
• communism — advocacy of a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community
• government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
• subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
• suppression — the act of suppressing.
• restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• imprisonment — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• subjection — the act of subjecting.
• reserve — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• complexity — Complexity is the state of having many different parts connected or related to each other in a complicated way.
• complication — A complication is a problem or difficulty that makes a situation harder to deal with.
• ambiguity — If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.
• imprecision — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
• inexact — not exact; not strictly precise or accurate.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• unfairness — not fair; not conforming to approved standards, as of justice, honesty, or ethics: an unfair law; an unfair wage policy.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• inaccuracy — something inaccurate; error.
• obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
• dirtiness — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
• humility — the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
• captivity — Captivity is the state of being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
• confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
• incarceration — the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
• limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
• servitude — slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.