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Noun: forwardness  for-wurd-nus [N. Amer], fo(r)-wûd-nus [Brit]
  1. Offensive boldness and assertiveness
    - bumptiousness, cockiness, pushiness
     
  2. An advanced stage
    "the forwardness of the harvest this year"; "the arts are in no kind of forwardness in this matter"
     
  3. Prompt willingness
    "he tried to explain his forwardness in battle"
    - readiness, eagerness, zeal

Derived forms: forwardnesses

See also: forward

Type of: assertiveness, earliness, self-assertiveness, willingness

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