Plainness Synonyms

The quality of being clear and easy to perceive or understand
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. perspicuity
  2. perspicuousness
  3. clarity
  4. clearness
  5. distinctness
  6. limpidity
  7. limpidness
  8. lucidity
  9. lucidness
  10. pellucidity
  11. pellucidness
Lack of ostentation or pretension
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. modesty
  2. simpleness
  3. simplicity
  4. homeliness
  5. unassumingness
  6. unostentatiousness
  7. unpretentiousness
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Words Related to Plainness

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Plainness Sentence Examples

  • His chief aim in writing was plainness and intelligibility, but his want of order and logical precision thwarted his purpose.

  • The whole is of the most studied plainness.

  • Its general plainness contrasts with the elaborate carving of the stone canopy which shelters the southern portal.

  • She had pulled her long auburn hair high on her head, making her appear taller and almost regal in spite of the simple lines of the garment, and the plainness of her features.

  • The plainness and directness, both of thought and of expression, which characterize Homer were doubtless qualities of his age; but the author of the Iliad (like Voltaire, to whom Arnold happily compares him) must have possessed the national gift in a surpassing degree.

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