THESAURUS
artlessness
absolute realism, authenticity, bluffness, bluntness, bona fideness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness, freedom, freeness, genuineness, honesty, inartificiality, ingenuousness, intactness, legitimacy, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness, natural man, natural state, naturalism, naturalness, nature, openheartedness, openness, outspokenness, photographic realism, plain dealing, plain speaking, plainness, plainspokenness, pristineness, realism, realness, roundness, sincerity, state of nature, straightforwardness, true-to-lifeness, truth to nature, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unconstraint, unfictitiousness, unreserve, unrestraint, unspeciousness, unspuriousness, unsyntheticness, verisimilitude, virginity
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artlessness
Artlessness
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artlessness, nature, simplicity, innocence, bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity, singleness of purpose, singleness of heart, honesty, plain speaking, epanchement, rough diamond, matter of fact man, le palais de verite, enfant terrible, artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive, sincere, frank, open, open as day, candid, ingenuous, guileless, unsuspicious, honest, innocent, Arcadian, undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard, simple-minded, single-minded, frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted, free-spoken, plain-spoken, outspoken, blunt, downright, direct, matter of fact, unpoetical, unflattering, in plain words, in plain English, without mincing the matter, not to mince the matter, Davus sum non Oedipus, liberavi animam meam, as frank as rain on cherry blossoms.