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Definition of Naturalness
1. Noun. The quality of being natural or based on natural principles. "The spontaneous naturalness of his manner"
Specialized synonyms: Unaffectedness, Simmpleness, Simplicity, Sincerity, Unassumingness, Spontaneity, Spontaneousness, Ease, Informality, Unpretentiousness, Naturalisation, Naturalization
Attributes: Natural, Unnatural
Derivative terms: Natural, Natural
Antonyms: Unnaturalness
2. Noun. The quality of innocent naivete.
Generic synonyms: Naiveness, Naivete, Naivety
Specialized synonyms: Innocency
Derivative terms: Artless, Ingenuous, Innocent
3. Noun. The likeness of a representation to the thing represented. "Engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music"
Definition of Naturalness
1. n. The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
Definition of Naturalness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being natural. ¹
2. Noun. Of a picture or recording, likeness to the original. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Naturalness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Naturalness
Literary usage of Naturalness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhetoric: Its Theory and Practice. "English Style in Public Discourse" by Austin Phelps, Henry Allyn Frink (1895)
"More specifically, naturalness is that quality by which style expresses the
fitness of language to thought, of both naturalness and ..."
2. A Study in Moral Problems by Bertram Mitchell Laing (1922)
"naturalness OF MORALITY. Though many things thus seem to throw doubt upon the
... Many attempts have been made to prove the naturalness of morality; ..."
3. The Art of Discourse: A System of Rhetoric, Adapted for Use in Colleges and by Henry Noble Day (1872)
"naturalness is a property which appears in style so far as it represents the
particular state of ... naturalness is founded on the peculiar mental condition ..."
4. History of Painting by Alfred Woltmann, Karl Woermann, Sidney Colvin (1880)
"Yet their naturalness is the very point which the contemporaries of Giotto extol
in his creations. In the Decamerone it is said of him " that he was so ..."
5. A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style by Samuel Phillips Newman (1856)
"Simplicity is sometimes used; but as this word is more frequently found in a
different sense, I shall introduce the term naturalness. I naturalness, as a ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He falls occasionally below some of his contemporaries in sharp characterization,
in vigorous movement and unaffected naturalness. ..."
7. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1882)
"Potentiality and naturalness are the immediate ; but we are here speaking of
spirit, and the latter in its immediateness oversteps its immediateness, ..."
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