Meaning | Having the characteristic / characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal / goal. |
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Narrower | allusiveness | A quality characterized by indirect reference |
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deviousness, obliqueness | The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly |
discursiveness | The quality of being discursive |
mediacy, mediateness | The quality of being mediate |
Broader | characteristic | A distinguishing quality |
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Opposite | directness, straightness | trueness of course toward a goal / goal |
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Adjectives | indirect | not direct in spatial dimension |
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indirect | not as a direct effect or consequence |