Word Meanings - SIMPLICITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: 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; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity. Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded. Hayward. In wit a man; simplicity a child. Pope. 4. Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life. 5. Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration. 6. Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning Prov. i. 22.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SIMPLICITY)

• Credulity
• Gullibility
• simplicity
• acceptativeness
• openmouthedness
• Innocence
• Innocuousness
• Inoffensiveness
• guilelessness
• guiltlessness
• purity
• sinlessness
• Rusticity
• Rudeness
• clownishness
• boorishness
• coarseness
• artlessness

Related words: (words related to SIMPLICITY)

• PURITY
  The condition of being pure. Specifically: freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday. Freedom from
• INNOCENCE
  1. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness. 2. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness. The silence often of pure innocence Persuades
• CREDULITY
  Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence. That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. Sir W. Hamilton.
• RUSTICITY
  The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
• CLOWNISHNESS
  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
• 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;
• ARTLESSNESS
  The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.
• COARSENESS
  The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange.
• UNSIMPLICITY
  Absence of simplicity; artfulness. C. Kingsley.
• CRUDENESS
  A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.
• IMPURITY
  Want of ceremonial purity; defilement. (more info) 1. The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster. 2. That which is, or which renders
• MISCREDULITY
  Wrong credulity or belief; misbelief. Bp. Hall.
• 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,
• INCREDULITY
  The state or quality of being i Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is the most irrational. Buckminster.