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unsimplicity

unsimplicity noun: absence of simplicity; complication or complexity.

Noun

unsimplicity (uncountable)

  1. Absence of simplicity; complication or complexity.
    • [Eustace] then went home flattering himself that he had taken in parson, clerk, and people; not knowing in his simple unsimplicity, and cunning foolishness, that each good wife in the parish was saying to the other, "He turned Protestant? The devil turned monk! He's only after Mistress Salterne...1855, Charles Kingsley, “The Two Ways of Being Crost in Love”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co....

Origin of unsimplicity

From un- + simplicity.

Questions about unsimplicity

What does unsimplicity mean?
Unsimplicity means absence of simplicity; complication or complexity.
What part of speech is unsimplicity?
Unsimplicity is a noun.

Words near unsimplicity in the dictionary

  1. unsimilarity
  2. unsimilarly
  3. unsimpable
  4. unsimpables
  5. unsimple
  6. unsimplicity
  7. unsimplifiable
  8. unsimplified
  9. unsimplifies
  10. unsimplify
  11. unsimplifying

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