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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

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