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simplicity
Synonyms and Antonyms of simplicity
- the machine was designed with a simplicity that should ensure ease of use by almost anyone
- the simplicity of this poem is beautiful
ambiguity, ambiguousness, equivocalness, equivocation, inscrutability, inscrutableness, obliqueness, obliquity, opacity, opaqueness
impenetrability, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness, unintelligibility, unintelligibleness
circuitousness, deviousness, indirectness, indistinctness
- the stupefying simplicity of the generals who thought that war would be over in a month
denseness, dim-wittedness, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, feeblemindedness, gormlessness [chiefly British], idiocy, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, simplemindedness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, vacuity
- answered the judgeʼs questions with childlike simplicity
artlessness, greenness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, innocence, naiveness, naïveté (also naivete), naivety (also naïvety) [chiefly British], naturalness, simplemindedness, simpleness, unsophistication, unworldliness, viridity
candor, frankness, genuineness, honesty, openness, sincerity, straightforwardness, unaffectedness, unpretentiousness
callowness, childishness, coltishness, inexperience, rawness
insularity, parochialism, provincialism
carelessness, heedlessness, thoughtlessness
ignorance, obliviousness, unawareness
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