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Word Meanings - PLAINNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being plain.

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  • DISTINCTNESS
    1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
  • SIMPLICITY
    1. The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths. 2. The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine. 3. Artlessness of mind;
  • PERSPICUITY
    1. The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. Sir T. Browne. 2. The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought. 3. Sagacity; perspicacity. Syn. -- Clearness; perspicuousness; plainness;
  • SINCERITY
    The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox.
  • ARTLESSNESS
    The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.
  • CLEARNESS
    The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and
  • FRANKNESS
    The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.
  • PLAINNESS
    The quality or state of being plain.
  • INSINCERITY
    The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions
  • UNSIMPLICITY
    Absence of simplicity; artfulness. C. Kingsley.
  • UNSINCERITY
    The quality or state of being unsincere or impure; insincerity. Boyle.
  • JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY
    The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President , eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort,
  • INDISTINCTNESS
    The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.
  • IMPERSPICUITY
    Want of perspicuity or clearness; vaguness; ambiguity.

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