forwardness
Americannoun
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overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
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cheerful readiness; eagerness.
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the condition of being advanced.
noun
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lack of modesty; presumption; boldness
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willing readiness; eagerness
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a state or condition of advanced progress or development
Etymology
Origin of forwardness
Example Sentences
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“ChatGPT encouraged an odd strain of forwardness that was helpful in getting the dates set up quickly,” Tal Murphy wrote.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023
Even so, ChatGPT encouraged an odd strain of forwardness that was helpful in getting the dates set up quickly.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2023
Pardon my forwardness — and my ignorance, for not knowing your work until now! — but I’m overwhelmed by your lucid musicality.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
Nor had the song fully delivered a sense of tragic inevitability, in which Hamilton’s uncharacteristic reticence and Burr’s uncharacteristic forwardness ruin the lives of both men.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 2, 2015
In my rage, I had found a new insolence, and surveyed each of them without remorse for my forwardness.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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