Simplicity: Definition and part of speech

Simplicity

  1. n. Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.
  2. n. The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.
  3. n. The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.
  4. n. Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.
  5. n. Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.
  6. n. Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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