elementariness

Its elementariness consists in the fact that the characters are labelled and classified: there can be no mistake about the effects intended to be produced, and the success of such work must depend upon the humour, the verisimilitude, the liveliness of the portraiture.

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

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.

This element of self finds its intense expression in lyrical love-poetry, one of the most enduring forms of literature because of its elementariness and universality; but it is also found in other parts of the emotional field.

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.