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Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.

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  1. n. Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.
  2. n. lack of sophistication or worldliness
  3. Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness. A story which pleases me by its naïveté -- that is, by its unconscious ingenuousness. De Quincey.
  4. Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness;artlessness.A story which pleases me by its naïveté -- that is, by itsunconscious ingenuousness. De Quincey.
  5. n:100 n. lack of sophistication or worldliness