Naturalness

3 definitions found

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

  Naturalness \Nat"u*ral*ness\, n.
     The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  naturalness
       n 1: the quality of being natural or based on natural principles;
            "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous
            naturalness of his manner" [ant: {unnaturalness}]
       2: the quality of innocent naivete [syn: {artlessness}, {innocence},
           {ingenuousness}]

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

  149 Moby Thesaurus words for "naturalness":
     Atticism, Bohemianism, abandon, absolute realism, affability,
     appropriateness, artlessness, austerity, authenticity, baldness,
     bareness, bona fideness, candor, casualness, chasteness, chastity,
     clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, comeliness,
     common speech, common touch, cordiality, correctness, dignity,
     directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, easiness,
     easygoingness, elegance, elegancy, familiarity, felicitousness,
     felicity, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency,
     folksiness, frankness, genuineness, good taste, grace,
     gracefulness, gracility, graciousness, health, homeliness,
     homespun, homeyness, honesty, household words, inartificiality,
     informality, informalness, intactness, irregularity, leanness,
     legitimacy, lifelikeness, limpidity, literalism, literality,
     literalness, looseness, lucidity, matter-of-factness, natural man,
     natural state, naturalism, nature, naturism, neatness, normalcy,
     normality, normalness, offhandedness, openness, order, pellucidity,
     perspicuity, photographic realism, plain English, plain speaking,
     plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, polish,
     pristineness, propriety, prosaicness, prosiness, purity, realism,
     realness, refinement, regularity, relaxedness, restrainedness,
     restraint, rustic style, seemliness, severity, simpleness,
     simplicity, sincerity, smoothness, soberness, sociability,
     spareness, spontaneity, starkness, state of nature,
     straightforwardness, taste, tastefulness, terseness,
     true-to-lifeness, truth to nature, unadorned style, unadornedness,
     unadulteration, unaffectation, unaffectedness, unartificialness,
     unassumingness, unceremoniousness, unconstrainedness, unconstraint,
     unconventionality, undisguise, unfictitiousness, unimaginativeness,
     unpoeticalness, unpretentiousness, unrestraint, unspeciousness,
     unspoiledness, unspuriousness, unsyntheticness, verisimilitude,
     vernacular, virginity, wholesomeness