Simplicity

3 definitions found

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

  Simplicity \Sim*plic"i*ty\, n. [F. simplicit['e], L.
     simplicitas. See {Simple}.]
     1. The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or
        uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.
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     2. The quality or state of being not complex, or of
        consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.
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     3. Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity;
        lack of acuteness and sagacity.
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              Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity
              neither misliked nor much regarded.   --Hayward.
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              In wit a man; simplicity a child.     --Pope.
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     4. Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or
        luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or
        of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.
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     5. Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the
        simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation
        or a demonstration.
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     6. Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.
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              How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
              and the scorners delight in their scorning? --Prov.
                                                    i. 22.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  simplicity
       n 1: the quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the simplicity
            of a crystal" [syn: {simpleness}] [ant: {complexity}]
       2: a lack of penetration or subtlety; "they took advantage of
          her simplicity" [syn: {simple mindedness}]
       3: absence of affectation or pretense
       4: freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose
          through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into
          containers for ease of transportation" [syn: {ease}, {easiness}]
          [ant: {difficulty}]
       5: lack of ornamentation; "the room was simply decorated with
          great restraint" [syn: {chasteness}, {restraint}]

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

  317 Moby Thesaurus words for "simplicity":
     Attic simplicity, Atticism, Bohemianism, abatement, abridgment,
     affability, agnosticism, agrarianism, alleviation, amentia,
     appropriateness, arrested development, artlessness, asceticism,
     attenuation, austereness, austerity, backwardness, baldness,
     bareness, blankmindedness, blithering idiocy, bluffness, bluntness,
     boorishness, brainlessness, bucolicism, callowness, candor,
     casualness, chasteness, chastity, childlikeness, churlishness,
     clarity, classical purity, classicalism, classicism, cleanness,
     clear coast, clear road, clear-cutness, clearness, cloddishness,
     coherence, combination, comeliness, common speech, common touch,
     commonness, commonplaceness, comprehensibility, connectedness,
     consistency, contraction, cordiality, correctness, cretinism,
     crystallinity, cullibility, dampening, damping, deceivability,
     decipherability, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction,
     definition, deflation, depreciation, depression, dignity,
     diminishment, diminution, directness, discrimination, distinction,
     distinctness, dull-wittedness, dullness, dupability, dying,
     dying off, ease, easiness, easy going, easygoingness,
     effortlessness, elegance, elegancy, empty-headedness, explicitness,
     extenuation, facileness, facility, fade-out, familiarity,
     felicitousness, felicity, finish, fittingness, flow,
     flowing periods, fluency, folksiness, forthrightness, frankness,
     freedom, fusion, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility,
     graciousness, greenhornism, greenness, guilelessness, gullibility,
     half-wittedness, hiatus of learning, highroad, hoaxability,
     homeliness, homespun, homeyness, household words, identity, idiocy,
     idiotism, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, imbecility,
     inanity, individuality, indivisibility, inelegance, inexperience,
     infantilism, informality, informalness, ingenuousness, innocence,
     insanity, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity,
     intelligibility, inurbanity, inviolability, irreducibility,
     irregularity, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of hindrance,
     lack of information, languishment, leanness, lessening, letup,
     limpidity, looseness, lowering, lucidity, matter-of-factness,
     mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap,
     mental retardation, miniaturization, mitigation, modesty,
     mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity,
     naiveness, naivete, naivety, naturalness, neatness, nescience,
     oafishness, obscurantism, obtuseness, offhandedness, oneness,
     openheartedness, openness, ordinariness, organic unity,
     outspokenness, particularity, pastorality, pellucidity,
     perspicuity, persuadability, plain English, plain sailing,
     plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness,
     plane sailing, polish, profound idiocy, propriety, prosaicness,
     prosiness, provincialism, provinciality, purity, quietness,
     rawness, reduction, refinement, relaxation, relaxedness,
     restrainedness, restraint, retardation, retardment, royal road,
     ruralism, rustic style, rusticity, sagging, scaling down,
     seduceability, seemliness, selfsameness, severity,
     simple-wittedness, simpleheartedness, simplemindedness, simpleness,
     sincerity, single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness,
     singleness of heart, singularity, smooth road, smooth sailing,
     smoothness, soberness, sociability, softness, solidarity,
     solidification, solidity, spareness, starkness, straight sailing,
     straightforwardness, structure, stupidity, subduedness,
     subnormality, subtraction, tabula rasa, taste, tastefulness,
     terseness, transparency, transpicuity, trustfulness,
     unacquaintance, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness,
     unambiguousness, unceremoniousness, uncomplexity,
     uncomplicatedness, unconstrainedness, unconstraint,
     unconventionality, uncultivation, understandability,
     understatement, undividedness, unequivocalness, unfamiliarity,
     unguardedness, unification, uniformity, unimaginativeness,
     unintelligence, uniqueness, unity, univocity, unknowing,
     unknowingness, unmistakableness, unobtrusiveness, unpoeticalness,
     unpretentiousness, unrefinement, unripeness, unsophisticatedness,
     unsophistication, unspoiledness, unsuspiciousness, unwariness,
     vacuity, vacuousness, vernacular, weakening, weakness, wholeness,
     witlessness, yokelism