upfrontness

See also: up-frontness

English

Alternative forms

• up-frontness

Etymology

From upfront +‎ -ness.

Noun

upfrontness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being upfront.
   • 1982 April 24, Cindy Patton, “So Much to Gain So Little to Lose: Getting to Know Buffy Dunker”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

     Betty's antique, wealthy, don't-confront-the-issue style clashed sharply with Jane's tough, working-class up-frontness.

   • 2015 February 3, Tim Dowling, “10,000 BC review: ’It might make you wish you lived in a time before television’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-03-25:

     10,000 BC owes a debt to Bear Gryll's The Island, although that was all men and this is half women. This show also begins with an admirable upfrontness about the little compromises that mean the experience is not quite as prehistoric as all that.

   • 2017 October 30, Rosa Silverman, “Nicola Roberts: ’Girls Aloud got away with absolute murder’”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph‎^[2], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-22:

     There is nothing frothy nor fake about her, as far as I can tell, and her earnest up-frontness is bracing. But then, she and her band mates, she says, were never media-trained: "[If] we felt like saying something we said it."

Related terms

• frontness