Dictionary Definition
plainness
Noun
1 the state of being unmixed with other material;
"the plainness of vanilla ice cream"
2 clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous
[syn: perspicuity,
perspicuousness]
3 the appearance of being plain and
unpretentious
4 an appearance that is not attractive or
beautiful; "fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness"
[syn: homeliness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The condition of being plain (in all senses)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Atticism, Bohemianism, accessibility, affability, apparentness, approachability,
appropriateness,
artlessness,
atmospheric visibility, austerity, baldness, bareness, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, cacophony, candidness, candor, casualness, ceiling, ceiling unlimited,
chasteness, chastity, childlikeness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clear-cutness,
clearness, clumsiness, coherence, comeliness, common speech,
common touch, commonness, commonplaceness,
communicativeness,
connectedness,
consistency,
conspicuity,
conspicuousness,
conversableness,
cordiality, correctness,
crystal-clearness, crystallinity, defacement, definiteness, definition, dignity, directness, discrimination, disfigurement, distinction, distinctness, dullness, dysphemism, ease, easiness, easygoingness, elegance, elegancy, elementarity, evidence, evidentness, explicitness, extroversion, familiarity, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fittingness, flatness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, folksiness, forthrightness, frankness, freedom, freeness, fundamentality, genuineness, good taste,
grace, gracefulness, gracelessness, gracility, graciousness, guilelessness, high
visibility, homeliness, homespun, homeyness, homogeneity, household
words, humbleness,
humility,
ill-favoredness, inelegance, informality, informalness, ingenuousness, ingloriousness, innocence, innocuousness, insipidness, integrity, irregularity, leanness, limpidity, looseness, low visibility,
lowlihood, lowliness, lucidity, manifestness, matter of
fact, matter-of-factness, meanness, meekness, modesty, monism, naiveness, naivete, naivety, naturalness, neatness, obviousness, offhandedness, oneness, openheartedness,
openness, openness to
sight, outgoingness, outspokenness, overtness, palpability, patentness, pellucidity, percipi, perspicuity, plain English,
plain dealing, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain
words, plainspokenness,
polish, poorness, prominence, propriety, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prose, prosiness, purity, refinement, relaxedness, restrainedness, restraint, roundness, rustic style,
seeing, seemliness, severity, shapelessness, simpleheartedness,
simplemindedness,
simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, single-heartedness,
single-mindedness, singleness, singleness of
heart, smallness,
smoothness, soberness, sociability, spareness, starkness, straightforwardness,
structure, submissiveness, talkativeness, tangibility, taste, tastefulness, teachableness, terseness, transparency, transpicuity, trustfulness, uglification, uglifying, ugliness, unadorned style,
unadornedness,
unadulteration,
unaestheticness,
unaffectedness,
unambiguousness,
unattractiveness,
unbeautifulness,
unceremoniousness,
uncomeliness,
unconstrainedness,
unconstraint,
unconventionality,
unembellishedness,
unequivocalness,
ungainliness,
ungracefulness,
unguardedness,
unhandsomeness,
unidealism, uniformity, unimaginativeness,
unimportance,
unity, unmistakableness,
unmixedness,
unpleasingness,
unpoeticalness,
unpretentiousness,
unprettiness,
unquestionability,
unrepression,
unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint, unrestriction, unreticence, unromanticism, unsecretiveness,
unshapeliness,
unsightliness,
unsophisticatedness,
unsophistication,
unsuppression,
unsuspiciousness,
untaciturnity,
unwariness, vapidity, vernacular, visibility, visibility
unlimited, visibility zero