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plainness
[pleyn] 
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plainness
[pleyn]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Concept: | Plainness. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
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-nouns
plainness; simplicity, severity; plain terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words
-verbs
call a spade "a spade"; plunge in medias res; come to the point.
-adjectives
plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic., dry, unvaried, monotonous.
-adverbs
in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance; point-blank.
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| Antonyms: | ornament |
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| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grimness, barrenness |
| Synonyms: | baldness, bareness, dourness, economy, plainness, primitiveness, rusticism, severity, simplicity, spareness, spartanism, starkness, unadornment |
| Antonyms: | elaborateness, luxuriousness |
| Main Entry: | clarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clearness |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Antonyms: | dirtiness, obscurity, unintelligiblity |
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
| Synonyms: | bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, impeccability, incorruptibility, integrity, justness, loyalty, morality, openness, outspokenness, plainness, principle, probity, rectitude, reputability, responsibility, right, scrupulousness, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness, uprightness, veracity, virtue |
| Antonyms: | artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence, lying, treachery |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmlessness, naiveté |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, frankness, freshness, guilelessness, gullibility, ignorance, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, lack, nescience, plainness, purity, simplicity, sincerity, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness |
| 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: | distinctness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clearness |
| Synonyms: | clarity, explicitness, lucidity, plainness, sharpness |
| Main Entry: | ugliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unattractiveness |
| Synonyms: | disfigurement, hideousness, homeliness, monstrousness, offensiveness, plainness, repulsiveness, unseemliness, unsightliness |
| Antonyms: | attraction, attractiveness, beauty, fairness, handsomeness |
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