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Plainness
n.
The quality or state of being plain.
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plainness
noun
- The quality of being clear and easy to perceive or understand: clarity, clearness, distinctness, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, pellucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness. See clear/unclear.
- Lack of ostentation or pretension: modesty, simpleness, simplicity, unassumingness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness. See plain/fancy.
WordNet:
plainness
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The noun has 4 meanings:
Meaning #1:
the state of being unmixed with other material
Meaning #2:
clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous
Synonyms: perspicuity, perspicuousness
Meaning #3:
the appearance of being plain and unpretentious
Meaning #4:
an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful
Synonym: homeliness
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 | Dictionary. Webster 1913 Dictionary edited by Patrick J. Cassidy Read more |
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| Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
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| WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Read more |
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