plainness
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈpleɪn.nəs/
:
claridad
- For how many were already, as we assuredly know, willing to be Catholics, being moved by the indisputable plainness of truth, but daily putting off their avowal of this through fear of offending their own party!
Examples
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What the plainness meant was the intention to be plain with yourself and others: directness of purpose; the long establishment of languages in which spiritual things could be spoken of directly and plainly, in which spiritual business could be done.
Academic text (1999) -
The narrative does not extend much hope that the two men will find their way back to the farmhouse, or to each other as fellow wayfarers, a condition which has taught them to respond with beautiful plainness and directness to one another's basic needs.
Academic text (1993) -
With the natural plainness of the spoken language, not the written language.
Academic text (1992) -
If detailed elaboration sits at one end of the scale, then plainness sits at the other.
Academic text (2013) -
Here they rest on the possibility of a better future and contrast it to the limitations, deficiencies, and plainness of the contemporary.
Blog text (10) -
Her explanations always exhibit a remarkable plainness that makes complex ideas easy to grasp.
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The artist chose a style defined by plainness, emphasizing clarity over elaborate details.
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In his writing, he values plainness, aiming for sentences that everyone can easily understand.
Synonyms
152
3.0
How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes
146
3.7
Being clear so people can see or understand how something works
63
1.7
Being easy to understand and not complicated
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3.5
How easy text is to read and understand
3
2.9
The quality of being easy to see or understand
1
6.5
The ease with which people understand speech or writing
1
5.0
Being direct and honest without hiding what you think
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1.4
How easy something is to understand, for example an explanation
1
9.5
A clear and simple way of saying something so people understand
Clear and easy to understand in writing or speech
Clear speech or writing that makes ideas easy to understand
Clear and simple writing or speech that is easy to understand
How clear something is so you can see through it
A clear meaning that leaves no doubt
How easy something is to follow and make sense of
How easy something is to understand or use without help
A quality that is not complicated and easy to understand or do
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Plainness comes from the Latin word planus, which means 'flat' or 'clear', and you can see the same root in explain, which means to make something clear. So plainness is the quality of being easy to understand.