COMMUNICATIVENESS Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

communicativeness

noun

as in unrestraint

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Noun

My first exit gave me that freedom, but also a sense of unfinished business.

— Daniel Kjellén, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
The decades-long contract with Cheniere indicates that Qatar sees a risk that freedom of navigation will never return to Hormuz as Iran keeps attacking tankers, Munton said.

— Spencer Kimball,Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of freedom

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The show sought to expand norms of representation—a project whose sincerity all but courts the cringeworthy—with artists hell-bent on deconstructing the drive for beauty, including Orlan, Sara Cwynar, Juno Calypso, and Haley Morris-Cafiero.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Still, the sincerity matters, and so does the achievement of realizing something this strange with such conviction.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of sincerity

Noun

But the earnestness of their performances, the texture of their hesitation, makes the video far more compelling than any of its deepfake counterparts.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Still, there’s something to the earnestness with which the movie does finally have its daddy issues and its cetacean ones intersect.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of earnestness

Noun

The Finnish Government has granted Posiva Oy an operating license for the world’s first permanent underground repository for spent nuclear fuel.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
The law puts a stop to the issuance of new carriage-horse licenses and outlaws the industry entirely by the summer of 2028.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026

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