Ingenuousness
[in'dʒenjuəsnis]
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.
(n.) Ingenuity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Artlessness, frankness, candor, sincerity, honesty, truthfulness, NAÏVET?/span>.
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Examples
- Yet he never saw her, or exchanged a word with her, without feeling that, after all, May's ingenuousness almost amounted to a gift of divination. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Nor did his blushes and awkwardness take away from it: she was pleased with these healthy tokens of the young gentleman's ingenuousness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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