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guilelessness
[gahyl-lis] 
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candor
[kan-der]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, directness, fairness, forthrightness, frankness, glasnost, guilelessness, honesty, impartiality, ingenuousness, naiveté, openness, outspokenness, probity, simplicity, sincerity, straightforwardness, truthfulness, unequivocalness, uprightness, veracity |
| Antonyms: | artifice, deception, falsehood, guile, lying |
| Main Entry: | naiveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence, gullibility |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
| Antonyms: | experience, leeriness, skepticism, sophistication |
| Main Entry: | simplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of complication, |
| Synonyms: | candor, chastity, clarity, classicality, clean lines, clearness, directness, ease, easiness, elementariness, guilelessness, homogeneity, ingenuousness, innocence, integrity, lack of adornment, modesty, monotony, naiveté, naturalness, obviousness, openness, plainness, primitiveness, purity, restraint, severity, singleness, sophistication artlessness, straightforwardness, uniformity, unity |
| Antonyms: | complexity, complication, difficultness, difficulty |
| Main Entry: | sincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | straightforwardness, honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, bona fides, candor, earnestness, frankness, genuineness, good faith, goodwill, guilelessness, heart, honor, impartiality, innocence, justice, openness, probity, reliability, seriousness, sincereness, singleness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, veracity, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | dishonesty, insincerity, untrustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | naïveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, gullibility, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, blamelessness, guilelessness, innocence |
| Main Entry: | inexpertness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inexperience |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, frankness, freshness, greenness, guilelessness, gullibility, ignorance, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, lack, nescience, plainness, purity, rawness, simplicity, sincerity, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness, virtue |
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| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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faultless, above suspicion, arcadian, artless, blameless, bloodguiltless, blunt, candid, clear, direct, dove, frank, guileless, guiltless, harmless, harmless as doves, honest, immaculate, impeccant, inartificial, inculpable, indefectible, inerrable, ingenit, ingenuous, innocent, innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, irreprehensible, irreproachable, irreprovable, lamb, native, natural, naïve, not guilty, open, pauciplicate, plain, pure, salvable, saturnian, simple, sincere, sinless, spotless, stainless, straightforward, unaffected, unblamable, unblemished, unculpable, undefiled, undesigning, unerring, unexceptionable, unflattering, unguilty, unhardened, unimpeachable, unimpeached, unobjectionable, unpoetical, unreproached, unreproved, unreserved, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstudied, untutored, venial, virtuous
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| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2, noun3, noun |
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artistic, attic, chaste, ciceronian, classical, continent, correct, decent, decorous, delicate, easy, elegant, euphemistic, euphonious, felicitous, graceful, happy, honest, intemerate, jannock, meracious, modest, natural, neat, neatly expressed, neatly put, numerose, platonic, polished, pristine, pure, readable, rhythmical, saxon, smectic, tripping, unaffected, undefiled, unlabored, virtuous, well put
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