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Definition: Simpleness |
SimplenessNoun1. The quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the simplicity of a crystal". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "simpleness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
"Simpleness" is a common misspelling or typo for: suppleness. |
Synonym: SimplenessSynonym: simplicity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: complexity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Simpleness | Noun: simpleness; Adjective: purity, homogeneity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Truly I find small difficulty here, the matter being even a child's affair for simpleness. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Beutiful Stone 3" by K.C. Hohensee Commentary: "The beauty of stone on grass, and simpleness of two lines interesecting to save the world....(yes... along with a very important man/God dying too)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Simpleness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Simpleness" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "simpleness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | simplicité (simplicity), niaiserie (silliness). (various references) | |
German | Einfachheit (austerity, elementariness, homeliness, humbleness, ordinariness, plainness, rudeness, simplicity, straightforwardness). (various references) | |
Greek | απλότησ (artlessness, austerity, homeliness, plainness, rusticity, simplicity, singleness), αφέλεια (artlessness, ingenuousness, naiveness, naivete, naivety, simplicity). (various references) | |
Italian | semplicità (artlessness, elementariness, homeliness, neatness, simplemindedness, simplicity). (various references) | |
Manx | meecheeayllid (absurdity, absurdness, idiocy, imbecility, madness, silliness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | implenesssay.(various references) | |
Romanian | simplitate (artlessness, chastity, greenness, homeliness, modesty, plainness, purity, simple-mindedness, simplicity). (various references) | |
Russian | простота (austerity, plainness, primitiveness, simplicities, simplicity, tenuity, unpretentiousness). (various references) | |
Spanish | sencillez (elementariness, homeliness, informality, naivety, simplicity). (various references) | |
Turkish | sadelik (austerity, frugality, homeliness, plainness, severity, simplicity). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | простота (artlessness, austerity, homeliness, plainness, rusticity, severity, simplicity), простодушність (artlessness, simplicity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "simpleness": simplenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "simpleness" (pronounced 'Sim"ple*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 | |
Direct Anagrams: limpnesses. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-m-n-p-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: spineless. | |
-2 letters: limpness, missense, pelisses, plenisms, slimness, spinless. | |
-3 letters: enisles, ensiles, lessens, mispens, missels, nemesis, pelisse, penises, pensile, pensils, plenism, plisses, semises, seniles, sessile, siemens, simnels, simples, sinless, speises, spenses, spinels, spleens, splines. | |
-4 letters: elemis, emesis, enisle, ensile, espies, impels, lenses, lessen, limens, menses, mesnes, messes, mispen, missel, misses, nesses, peises, penile, pensil, pisses. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-m-n-p-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: lumpinesses. | |
+2 letters: limpidnesses, simplenesses. | |
+3 letters: impulsiveness, lumpishnesses. | |
+4 letters: blimpishnesses, compulsiveness, impassableness, implicitnesses, impolitenesses, impossibleness. | |
+5 letters: exemplarinesses, impulsivenesses, permissibleness. | |
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