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simple-heartedness

simple-heartedness noun: the state or quality of being simple-hearted; guilelessness, sincerity, lack of sophistication.

Noun

simple-heartedness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being simple-hearted; guilelessness, sincerity, lack of sophistication.
    • ... my slight intercourse with him added to the respect which I feel to those of his class, in whom generous feeling, sound practical sense, and shrewd judgment, are often found united with unassuming manners and simple-heartedness.1998, John Francis McDermott, Before Mark Twain: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi, →ISBN, page 37

Forms of simple-heartedness

alternative formsimpleheartedness

Origin of simple-heartedness

From simple-hearted + -ness.

Questions about simple-heartedness

What does simple-heartedness mean?
Simple-heartedness means the state or quality of being simple-hearted; guilelessness, sincerity, lack of sophistication.
What part of speech is simple-heartedness?
Simple-heartedness is a noun.

Words near simple-heartedness in the dictionary

  1. simple tense
  2. simple tenses
  3. simple time
  4. simple-hearted
  5. simple-heartedly
  6. simple-heartedness
  7. simple-lifeish
  8. simple-minded
  9. simple-mindedly
  10. simple-mindedness
  11. simplectic

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