Artlessness (Noun)
Meaning 1
The quality of innocent naivete.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The little girl's artlessness shone through as she drew a stick figure with an enthusiastically curly halo to depict a beautiful princess.
- The visitors to the third world village were disarmed by the villagers' warm and honest smiles that bore all the innocence and simplicity of untainted human beings with an uninhibited display of their native artlessness.
- It was refreshing to encounter someone with such artlessness, unaffected by fashion, propaganda or other cultural conditioning.
- People whose intentions seem pure generally portray a high degree of naivety along with innocence reflecting clearly in their everyday behaviors, which have pure and pristine essence that a typical world leaves behind – thus displaying a true artlessness.
- His child-like simplicity and artlessness gave the TV audience a clue as to why they had adored his character so much on screen, without ever realizing it consciously.
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Meaning 2
Ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The child's artlessness made it impossible for her to construct a convincing lie.
- Her artlessness was refreshing in a city where everyone seemed to be hiding behind a mask of pretension.
- The artist's use of bold colors and simple shapes captured the artlessness of childhood.
- The politician's artlessness was seen as a welcome change from the usual spin and deceit that came with the office.
- In her artlessness, she spoke her mind without concern for the consequences, a quality that both endeared and terrified those around her.