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ingenuousness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | artlessness, innocence, naturalness |
| Type of | naiveness, naivete, naivety |
| Has types | innocency |
| Derivation | ingenuous |
ingenuousness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | frankness, candidness, candor, candour, directness, forthrightness |
| Has types | artlessness |
| Derivation | ingenuous |
Examples of ingenuousness
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Ingenuousness is almost as disreputable as its opposite today, possibly more so.
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We see it with all the baffled ingenuousness of the constitutionally alienated.
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Even now he tends to find saintliness where others might have seen ingenuousness.
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The young girl's appearance and her slightly prissy ingenuousness come from the Alice books.
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In the myriad detail of the book is an irresistible ingenuousness.
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Otherwise, this conversation is over, and any further fits of feigned ingenuousness will be ignored.
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The book's ingenuousness is not all to the bad.
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Yet, no matter which side of the fence he's working, Paisley's songs are delivered with a down-to-earth ingenuousness.
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Topol, who last loped in Fiddler on the Roof, has a sort of toothy ingenuousness that gives Galileo an unfortunate puppy-dog quality.
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- Artlessness: the quality of innocent naivete
- Openly straightforward or frank
- (ingenuous) characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
- (ingenuous) innocent: lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
- The condition of being ingenuous
- (ingenuous) (adj) - artless; unsophisticated; frank, candid
- (ingenuous) (adj.): simple; innocent
