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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Artlessness \Art"less*ness\, n.
     The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile;
     simplicity; sincerity.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  artlessness
       n 1: the quality of innocent naivete [syn: {innocence}, {ingenuousness},
             {naturalness}]
       2: ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit
          [ant: {artfulness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "artlessness":
     absolute realism, authenticity, bluffness, bluntness,
     bona fideness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor,
     directness, forthrightness, frankness, freedom, freeness,
     genuineness, honesty, inartificiality, ingenuousness, intactness,
     legitimacy, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness,
     natural man, natural state, naturalism, naturalness, nature,
     openheartedness, openness, outspokenness, photographic realism,
     plain dealing, plain speaking, plainness, plainspokenness,
     pristineness, realism, realness, roundness, sincerity,
     state of nature, straightforwardness, true-to-lifeness,
     truth to nature, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unconstraint,
     unfictitiousness, unreserve, unrestraint, unspeciousness,
     unspuriousness, unsyntheticness, verisimilitude, virginity
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ARTLESSNESS, n.  A certain engaging quality to which women attain by
  long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased
  to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.
  
  

















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