artlessness

/'ɑ:tlisnis/

Thân thiện

A child's artlessness shows in her honest, wide-eyed expression.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The quality of being free from artful deceit; ingenuousness: "artlessness" refers to a state of being straightforward, sincere, and without guile or cunning.
   • The quality of innocent naivete: "artlessness" also denotes a simple, unaffected, and sometimes unsophisticated innocence.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Her artlessness was refreshing in a world full of pretense. (Her lack of deceit was refreshing in a world full of pretense.)
  • The child's artlessness in asking personal questions made everyone smile. (The child's innocent naivete in asking personal questions made everyone smile.)

Advanced Usage

• "with artlessness": in a manner characterized by a lack of deceit or sophistication.
  • He answered the difficult questions with complete artlessness. (He answered the difficult questions with complete sincerity and lack of guile.)

Variants and Related Words

• Artless (adj): free from deceit, cunning, or craftiness; ingenuous. Also, lacking art, knowledge, or skill; crude.
  • He gave an artless account of the events. (He gave a straightforward, honest account of the events.)

Synonyms

• Ingenuousness: the quality of being innocent and unsuspecting.
• Naivete: lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.
• Guilelessness: the quality of being free from sly or cunning intelligence.
• Candor: the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness.

Antonyms

• Artfulness: the quality of being clever or skillful, often in a cunning or deceitful way.
• Guile: sly or cunning intelligence used to deceive.
• Deceitfulness: the quality of being inclined to deceive.
• Sophistication: the quality of being experienced and worldly-wise.

Học thuật

Noun

1. ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit
2. the quality of innocent naivete

Từ đồng nghĩa

• innocence
• ingenuousness
• naturalness