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forwardness

/fawr-werd-nis/US // ˈfɔr wərd nɪs //UK // (ˈfɔːwədnɪs) //

前瞻性,前进性,前言,前景

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
    • : cheerful readiness; promptness; eagerness.
    • : condition of being in advance.

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Examples

  • It gives you the sense of the forwardness of history as well as the backwardness.

  • Daughters Malia and Sasha are appreciative of the president's uptick in fashion-forwardness too.

  • Something like (forgive my forwardness) “No representation without taxation.”

  • My wife is still in the country; my house all in dirt; but my work in a good forwardness, and will be much to my mind at last.

  • He fell into a chaffing way with his children and laughed heartily at Marian's forwardness.

  • Here we are more concerned with that forwardness to serve humanity, which he made the other mark of the true nation.

  • Then, half-ashamed and startled at her forwardness, her gaze dropped.

  • The frost was followed by glowing heats, and a wonderful forwardness of flowers and fruits.