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PLAINNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An appearance that is not attractive or beautiful
Example:
fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness
Synonyms:
homeliness; plainness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("plainness" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Derivation:
plain (lacking in physical beauty or proportion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The appearance of being plain and unpretentious
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("plainness" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plainness"):
chasteness; restraint; simpleness; simplicity (lack of ornamentation)
austereness; severeness; severity (extreme plainness)
bareness; starkness (an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation)
Derivation:
plain (lacking embellishment or ornamentation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous
Synonyms:
perspicuity; perspicuousness; plainness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("plainness" is a kind of...):
clarity; clearness; limpidity; lucidity; lucidness; pellucidity (free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression)
Derivation:
plain (clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The state of being unmixed with other material
Example:
the plainness of vanilla ice cream
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("plainness" is a kind of...):
pureness; purity (being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material)
Derivation:
plain (not mixed with extraneous elements)
