Word Meanings - FRANKNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

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;
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.
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,