elementariness

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Sully defines a function as "a psychologically simple process," 3 and compares its elementariness to a muscular contraction as an element of a step in walking.

From The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste by Gilbreth, Lillian Moller

And Prothero—Prothero, too, was now achieving the same grand elementariness, out of his lusts and protests and general physical squalor he had flowered into love.

From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

You who are so clever and who think so much and so clearly, must laugh at their elementariness.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von