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Definition: Ingenuousness |
IngenuousnessNoun1. The quality of innocent naivete. 2. Openly straightforward or frank. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ingenuousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Synonyms: IngenuousnessSynonyms: artlessness (n), innocence (n), naturalness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: disingenuousness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Veracity | Noun: veracity; truthfulness, frankness; Adjective: truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona fides; love of truth; probity; ingenuousness; (artlessness). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ingenuousness |
| English words defined with "ingenuousness": artlessness. (references) |
| "Ingenuousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ingenuousness" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ingenuousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | наивност (gullibility, innocence, naivete, naivety, viridity), простота (amplitude, homeliness, innocence, plainness, rusticity, severity, simplicity, tenuity), простодушие. (various references) | |
German | Offenheit (candidness, candor, frankness, openness, outspokenness). (various references) | |
Greek | αφέλεια (naivety). (various references) | |
Italian | ingenuità (greenness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingenuousnessay.(various references) | |
Romanian | iscusinţã (ability, address, art, astuteness, cleverness, fitness, ingenuity, knack, management, skill, talent), inventivitate (gumption, ingenuity, inventiveness, resourcefulness), ingeniozitate (cleverness, cuteness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness, sagacity, skill), spirit inventiv (ingenuity, inventiveness), pricepere (ability, capability, cleverness, competence, fitness, gumption, knack, know how, management, qualification, savvy, sconce, skill, understanding), minte ingenioasã. (various references) | |
Spanish | ingenuidad (naiveness, naivety, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppriktighet (candour, sincerity), okonstlat sätt, naivitet (innocence, naïveté, naivete, naivety), frimodighet (frankness), öppenhet (candidness, freedom, openness, patency). (various references) | |
Thai | ความบริสุทธิ์ใจ. (various references) | |
Turkish | içtenlik (cordiality, fairness, faithfulness, heartiness, sincereness, sincerity, singleness, trueness, unaffectedness, warmth), temiz kalplilik (goodwill, simple-mindedness), saflık (chastity, credulity, gullibility, innocence, naivete, naivety, purity, refinement, simple-mindedness, trueness), açık sözlülük (bluntness, candor, candour, expansiveness, frankness, freedom, openness, outspokennes, roundness, straightness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính chân thật tính ngây thơ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ingenuousness": ingenuousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ingenuousness": disingenuousness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ingenuousness": disingenuousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ingenuousness" (pronounced 'In*gen"u*ous*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-s-s-s-u-u" | |
-4 letters: gneissose, ingenuous, nonissues, nonsenses, sunniness. | |
-5 letters: enginous, enosises, geniuses, genoises, gneisses, goneness, ingenues, noesises, nonissue, nonsense, nonusing, nosiness, sensuous, snugness, unseeing, unsonsie. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-s-s-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: ingenuousnesses. | |
+3 letters: disingenuousness. | |
+4 letters: incongruousnesses. | |
+5 letters: disingenuousnesses. | |
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