Synonyms for glasnost
- directness
- fairness
- frankness
- honesty
- outspokenness
- probity
- simplicity
- sincerity
- truthfulness
- artlessness
- forthrightness
- impartiality
- ingenuousness
- openness
- straightforwardness
- unequivocalness
- uprightness
- veracity
- guilelessness
- naiveté
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WORD ORIGIN
1972 (in reference to a letter of 1969 by Solzhenitsyn), from Russian glasnost "openness to public scrutiny," literally "publicity, fact of being public," ultimately from Old Church Slavonic glasu "voice" (see call). First used in a socio-political sense by Lenin; popularized in English after Mikhail Gorbachev used it prominently in a speech of March 11, 1985, accepting the post of general secretary of the CPSU.
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