ingenuousness

ingenuousness
n
1. openness, openheartedness, sincerity, sincereness, genuineness, undeceptiveness, undeceitfulness; honorableness, justness, fairness, uprightness, straightness, squareness, square dealing, plain dealing, square shooting, straight shooting; honesty, trustworthiness, Inf. trustiness, uncorruptedness.
2. candor, candidness, frankness, forthrightness, straightforwardness, calling a spade a spade, Sl. telling it like it is; plain-speaking, plain-spokenness, down-rightness, outrightness, explicitness, unequivocalness; outspokenness, free-spokenness, free-speaking, freeness, nonreticence, boldness, unreserve, unrestraint, unconstraint, uninhibitedness, unabashedness; bluntness, bluffness, brusqueness, brashness, tactlessness.
3. artlessness, guilelessness, naivete1, naiveness, sim-pleness, simple-mindedness, innocence, unsophisticat-edness, greenness; trustfulness, unsuspiciousness, unwariness, unguardedness.

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  • Ingenuousness — In*gen u*ous*ness, n. 1. The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness. [1913 Webster] 2. Ingenuity. [Obs.] Fuller. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • ingenuousness — index candor (straightforwardness), honesty, informality, probity, veracity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • ingenuousness — ingenuous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ innocent and unsuspecting. DERIVATIVES ingenuously adverb ingenuousness noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «noble, generous»: from Latin ingenuus native, inborn …   English terms dictionary

  • ingenuousness — noun see ingenuous II …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • ingenuousness — See ingenuously. * * * …   Universalium

  • ingenuousness — noun The condition of being ingenuous …   Wiktionary

  • ingenuousness — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. frankness, openness, guilelessness, simplicity; see innocence 2 , sincerity …   English dictionary for students

  • ingenuousness — in gen·u·ous·ness || ɪn dÊ’É™njÊŠÉ™snɪs n. purity, innocence, naivety; openness, honesty, genuineness, frankness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • ingenuousness — n. Artlessness, frankness, candor, sincerity, honesty, truthfulness, openness, guilelessness, single mindedness, open heartedness, childlikeness, naïveté …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • ingenuousness — in·gen·u·ous·ness …   English syllables

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