Definition of Artlessness

1. Noun. The quality of innocent naivete.

Exact synonyms: Ingenuousness, Innocence, Naturalness
Generic synonyms: Naiveness, Naivete, Naivety
Specialized synonyms: Innocency
Derivative terms: Artless, Ingenuous, Innocent

2. Noun. Ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit.
Generic synonyms: Ingenuousness
Antonyms: Artfulness
Derivative terms: Artless

Definition of Artlessness

1. n. The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.

Definition of Artlessness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being artless. ¹

2. Noun. The state or quality of being innocent; naivete. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Artlessness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Artlessness

artistic revolution
artistic style
artistical
artistically
artistries
artistry
artists
artistæ
artivist
artivists
artizan
artizans
artless
artlessly
artlessness
artlessnesses
artlike
artly
artmaker
artmakers
artmaking
artocarpous
artolatry
artotype
artotypes
artotyrite
artow
artroeite
arts

Literary usage of Artlessness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Art in Theory: An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1894)
"Art a Method—Artlessness and Art Illustrated—Differing not as Originality from Imitation—Nor as the Natural from the Unnatural—But as an Immediate ..."

2. The Essentials of æsthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and by George Lansing Raymond (1921)
"Introduction—Art is a Method—Artlessness and Art Illustrated—Differing not as Originality from Imitation, nor as the Natural from the Unnatural—But as an ..."

3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... false ignorance, were depended upon to give them the artlessness and innocence of deportment which should recommend them to the blase men of the times. ..."

4. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1880)
"They rendered moral theses, historical periods, sensible ; they created and applied aesthetics; they had no artlessness, or made their artlessness an ..."

5. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: To by John Walker (1806)
"Qualities of one that lives in the country, simplicity, artlessness, rudeness ; rural appearance. ..."

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