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Synonyms for plainness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pleyn |
| Phonetic Transcription : pleɪn |
Top 10 synonyms for plainness
- cognizability
- decipherability
- distinctness
- economicalness
- evidence
- exactitude
- exactness
- explicability
- explicitness
- humbleness
- intelligibility
- legibility
- limpidity
- limpidness
- lucidity
- lucidness
- manifestness
- obviousness
- openness
- overtness
- palpability
- pellucidity
- pellucidness
- penetrability
- perceptibility
- perspicuity
- perspicuousness
- precision
- prominence
- purity
- salience
- simpleness
- simplicity
- tangibility
- transparency
- unambiguity
- unassumingness
- unmistakability
- unostentatiousness
- unpretentiousness
Définition of plainness
Origin :- c.1300, "flatness," from plain (adj.) + -ness. Meaning "clarity" is mid-15c.; that of "open conduct" is from 1540s; that of "absence of ornament" is from 1580s.
- noun clarity
- noun modesty
- Under the circumstances, it is surprising how much of plainness women have preserved.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- Neatness was at all times my pride; but now plainness was the conformity to necessity.
- Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson
- For my part, there isn't one of them bates the Manx itself for plainness.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
- Its plainness troubled him, but its cleanliness was unquestionable.
- Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
- They fascinated him till their plainness to his sight gave him a conviction that there was danger there.
- Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
- He was vaguely amazed at the plainness with which down there he could hear the gale raging.
- Extract from : « Typhoon » by Joseph Conrad
- But I suppose her age and plainness were too pronounced for a town man.
- Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
- It took, indeed, trimness of apparel to make up for the plainness of his face.
- Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro
- It was perhaps to conceal this plainness that he wore it very short.
- Extract from : « The Tragic Muse » by Henry James
- When power bowed to flattery, honour was bound to plainness.
- Extract from : « Tales from Shakespeare » by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
Antonyms for plainness
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