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guilelessness

US/ˈɡaɪl.lɪs.nɪs/

guilelessness noun: the characteristic of being guileless; honesty.

Noun

guilelessness (uncountable)

  1. The characteristic of being guileless; honesty.
    • They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite.1987, Saul Bellow, More Die of Heartbreak
    • You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre. And by blending it with the common YA trope of a young...2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2017

guilelessness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

guilelessness in Tamil

நிட்காபட்டியம், பாரமார்த்திகம்

guilelessness in Urdu

بےساختگی

guilelessness in Bengali

ছলচাতুরিহীন হওয়ার বৈশিষ্ট্য, সততা

Origin of guilelessness

From guileless + -ness.

Questions about guilelessness

What does guilelessness mean?
Guilelessness means the characteristic of being guileless; honesty.
What is guilelessness in Tamil?
Guilelessness in Tamil is நிட்காபட்டியம், பாரமார்த்திகம். See Guilelessness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is guilelessness?
Guilelessness is a noun.
How do you pronounce guilelessness?
Guilelessness is pronounced /ˈɡaɪl.lɪs.nɪs/ (US).

Words near guilelessness in the dictionary

  1. guilefulness
  2. guilele
  3. guileles
  4. guileless
  5. guilelessly
  6. guilelessness
  7. guiler
  8. guilers
  9. guilery
  10. guiles
  11. guilesome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guilelessness (page history and authors); guilelessness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); guilelessness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); guilelessness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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