'Simplicity' definitions:
Definition of 'simplicity'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the simplicity of a crystal" [syn: simplicity, simpleness] [ant: complexity, complexness]
noun
A lack of penetration or subtlety; "they took advantage of her simplicity" [syn: simplicity, simpleness, simple mindedness]
noun
Absence of affectation or pretense [syn: simplicity, simmpleness]
noun
Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of the deed held her back" [syn: ease, easiness, simplicity, simpleness] [ant: difficultness, difficulty]
noun
Lack of ornamentation; "the room was simply decorated with great restraint" [syn: chasteness, restraint, simplicity, simpleness]
Definition of 'Simplicity'
From: GCIDE
- Simplicity \Sim*plic"i*ty\, n. [F. simplicit['e], L. simplicitas. See Simple.]
- 1. The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity. [1913 Webster]
- Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
- In wit a man; simplicity a child. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly. [1913 Webster]
- How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning? --Prov. i. 22. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'simplicity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatement,
- abridgment,
- affability,
- agnosticism,
- agrarianism,
- alleviation,
- amentia,
- appropriateness,
- arrested development,
- artlessness,
- asceticism,
- attenuation,
- Attic simplicity,
- Atticism,
- austereness,
- austerity,
- backwardness,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- blankmindedness,
- blithering idiocy,
- bluffness,
- bluntness,
- Bohemianism,
- boorishness,
- brainlessness,
- bucolicism,
- callowness,
- candor,
- casualness,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- childlikeness,
- churlishness,
- clarity,
- classical purity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- cleanness,
- clear coast,
- clear road,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- cloddishness,
- coherence,
- combination,
- comeliness,
- common speech,
- common touch,
- commonness,
- commonplaceness,
- comprehensibility,
- connectedness,
- consistency,
- contraction,
- cordiality,
- correctness,
- cretinism,
- crystallinity,
- cullibility,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deceivability,
- decipherability,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- definition,
- deflation,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- dignity,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- dull-wittedness,
- dullness,
- dupability,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ease,
- easiness,
- easy going,
- easygoingness,
- effortlessness,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- empty-headedness,
- explicitness,
- extenuation,
- facileness,
- facility,
- fade-out,
- familiarity,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- folksiness,
- forthrightness,
- frankness,
- freedom,
- fusion,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- graciousness,
- greenhornism,
- greenness,
- guilelessness,
- gullibility,
- half-wittedness,
- hiatus of learning,
- highroad,
- hoaxability,
- homeliness,
- homespun,
- homeyness,
- household words,
- identity,
- idiocy,
- idiotism,
- ignorance,
- ignorantism,
- ignorantness,
- imbecility,
- inanity,
- individuality,
- indivisibility,
- inelegance,
- inexperience,
- infantilism,
- informality,
- informalness,
- ingenuousness,
- innocence,
- insanity,
- intactness,
- integrality,
- integration,
- integrity,
- intelligibility,
- inurbanity,
- inviolability,
- irreducibility,
- irregularity,
- know-nothingism,
- knowledge-gap,
- lack of hindrance,
- lack of information,
- languishment,
- leanness,
- lessening,
- letup,
- limpidity,
- looseness,
- lowering,
- lucidity,
- matter-of-factness,
- mental defectiveness,
- mental deficiency,
- mental handicap,
- mental retardation,
- miniaturization,
- mitigation,
- modesty,
- mongolianism,
- mongolism,
- mongoloid idiocy,
- moronism,
- moronity,
- naiveness,
- naivete,
- naivety,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- nescience,
- oafishness,
- obscurantism,
- obtuseness,
- offhandedness,
- oneness,
- openheartedness,
- openness,
- ordinariness,
- organic unity,
- outspokenness,
- particularity,
- pastorality,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- persuadability,
- plain English,
- plain sailing,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- plane sailing,
- polish,
- profound idiocy,
- propriety,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- provincialism,
- provinciality,
- purity,
- quietness,
- rawness,
- reduction,
- refinement,
- relaxation,
- relaxedness,
- restrainedness,
- restraint,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- royal road,
- ruralism,
- rustic style,
- rusticity,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- seduceability,
- seemliness,
- selfsameness,
- severity,
- simple-wittedness,
- simpleheartedness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- sincerity,
- single-heartedness,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness,
- singleness of heart,
- singularity,
- smooth road,
- smooth sailing,
- smoothness,
- soberness,
- sociability,
- softness,
- solidarity,
- solidification,
- solidity,
- spareness,
- starkness,
- straight sailing,
- straightforwardness,
- structure,
- stupidity,
- subduedness,
- subnormality,
- subtraction,
- tabula rasa,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- transparency,
- transpicuity,
- trustfulness,
- unacquaintance,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- unambiguousness,
- unceremoniousness,
- uncomplexity,
- uncomplicatedness,
- unconstrainedness,
- unconstraint,
- unconventionality,
- uncultivation,
- understandability,
- understatement,
- undividedness,
- unequivocalness,
- unfamiliarity,
- unguardedness,
- unification,
- uniformity,
- unimaginativeness,
- unintelligence,
- uniqueness,
- unity,
- univocity,
- unknowing,
- unknowingness,
- unmistakableness,
- unobtrusiveness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unrefinement,
- unripeness,
- unsophisticatedness,
- unsophistication,
- unspoiledness,
- unsuspiciousness,
- unwariness,
- vacuity,
- vacuousness,
- vernacular,
- weakening,
- weakness,
- wholeness,
- witlessness,
- yokelism