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Definition: Simplicity |
SimplicityNoun1. The quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the simplicity of a crystal". 2. A lack of penetration or subtlety; "they took advantage of her simplicity". 3. Absence of affectation or pretense. 4. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort: "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation". 5. Lack of ornamentation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "simplicity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Literature | Simplicity is sine plica, without a fold; as duplicity is duplex plica, a double fold. Conduct "without a fold" is straightforward, but thought without a fold is mere childishness. It is "tortuity of thought" that constitutes philosophic wisdom, and "simplicity of thought" that prepares the mind for faith. "The flat simplicity of that reply was admirable."- Vanbrugh and Cibber: The Provoked Husband, i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Simplicity is the property, condition, or quality of being simple or uncombined. It often connotes beauty. Simple things are usually easier to explain and be understood and durable to be interpreted ambiguously than complex ones.According to Occam's razor, all other things being equal, the simplest theory is the most likely to be true -- hence the importance of the concept of simplicity in epistemology. According to Thomas Aquinas, God is infinitely simple.
In MCS cognition theory, simplicity is the property of a domain which requires very little information to be exhaustively described. This is the contrary of complexity.
Related Entries:
- Simple living
- Voluntary simplicity
See also:
- Cognitics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Simplicity."
Synonyms: SimplicitySynonyms: chasteness (n), ease (n), easiness (n), restraint (n), simple mindedness (n), simpleness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: complexity (n), difficulty (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Artlessness | Noun: artlessness; adj; nature, simplicity; innocence; bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity; singleness of purpose, singleness of heart; honesty; plain speaking; epanchement. |
Facility | Simplicity, lack of complication. |
Ignorance | Noun: ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse; unfamiliarity, unacquaintance; unconsciousness; Adjective: darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity. |
Imbecility Folly | Simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity; idiocy, idiotism; driveling. |
Plainness | Noun: plainness; Adjective: simplicity, severity; plain terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words |
Simplicity | Noun: simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress,Noun: simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress, chastity. |
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Crosswords: Simplicity |
| English words defined with "simplicity": childlike, crude ♦ dewey-eyed, Dicyemata ♦ Elementariness ♦ Golden Age ♦ Mennonite, Mennonite Church, modest ♦ naif, naive, Norman style ♦ Polygordius, primitive ♦ rude ♦ simple, Simple obligation, simpleness, Simpless, Simplity, sincerity, Single-acting ♦ unassumingness, Unsimplicity, Unwisdom ♦ wide-eyed ♦ Xenelasia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "simplicity": Æolic Mode ♦ ARTLESSNESS ♦ compressed-air turbines ♦ Dowsabell ♦ Ferroelectric Random Access Memory, Flat Simplicity, FunnelWeb ♦ Lake School, linked blocks, Live simply ♦ Modula-2 , Modula-2*, Modula-3, Modula-3* ♦ Nimini Pimini, Nonneutral Plasmas ♦ PACKAGE DESIGNER, Pre-Raphaelites ♦ RCA 1802, round-robin ♦ Sather, scattering parameters, Sing my Music, and not Yours, SLY BOOTS, SP, s-parameters, steam winder ♦ Tool Command Language ♦ wireless local area network. (references) |
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Screenplays | Of that suppleness you once commanded in your youth, of that strange simplicity which once attracted men to you, neither endures, nor shall you recapture them (Seven Faces of Dr. Lao; writing credit: Charles G. Finney; Charles Beaumont) Elegant in its simplicity, don't you think (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) | |
Clever | The secret of true greatness is simplicity. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | Figure 57. Kohler mounting and messenger system. This system was commercialized by Fritz Kohler at about the beginning of the Twentieth Century. However, its simplicity and fragility caused it to be little used. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 5. Compact luxmeter, used for study of light in air. Simplicity of design and use have joined with greater and greater precision of measurement in this mass-produced industry instrument. Although apparently an instrument used in meteorology, it is shown here because of the relationship between solar radiation and photo synthesis. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Democratic simplicity or the arrival of our favourite son. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Lower Palace of the Golfines" by Luis Alves Commentary: "It is the most beautiful example of Cacereña architecture (i.e. architecture of Cacerés). Its façade demonstrating with its simplicity the beauty of the plateresca style. In it, the Catholic Kings lodged once allowing its onweers to develop a close relati" |
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Author Unknown | The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity. |
Charles Dudley Warner | Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. |
Christian Nevell Bovee | Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. |
EugFne Delacroix | A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. |
Herman Boerhaave | The great seal of truth is simplicity. |
Lao-Tzu | Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. |
Philip James Bailey | Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. |
Plato | Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity. |
Sir Richard Steele | Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy. |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It is necessary that constancy of mind, persistency of purpose, and the grand simplicity of decision shall guide and rule the conduct of the English-speaking peoples in peace as they did in war. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | The nature and the simplicity of gentlemen and ladies, with their servants and furniture, I think is best observed by meals within doors |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had uttered these sentences in a loud, rapid, hoarse, harsh, and guttural tone, with a sort of angry and savage simplicity. |
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Health | Advantages include simplicity, low cost, and standardization. (references) | |
In spite of the physical simplicity of a total-energy concept, other principles have been invoked to define equivalent exposures of different sound levels and durations. (references) | ||
Economic History | Zambia | Cost, reliability, simplicity, and durability are also important factors in marketing products in Zambia. (references) |
Ukraine | According to the report, policies should be aimed overall at achieving transparency, simplicity, and predictability in the business sphere. (references) | |
Uk | However, an interdepartmental HMG working group has reviewed UK corruption laws with a view to codification for greater simplicity, clarity, and effectiveness. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | All will admit that the simplicity and economy of the State governments mainly depend on the fact that money has to be supplied to support them by the same men, or their agents, who vote it away in appropriations. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | We should never be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of a republican form of government and most compatible with the mission of the American people. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Let us go forward with an historic reform for fairness, simplicity, and incentives for growth. |
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| "Simplicity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.89% of the time. "Simplicity" is used about 931 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) | 99.89% | 930 | 7,759 |
| Noun (common) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 931 | N/A |
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Expressions using "simplicity": feign simplicity ♦ Jeffersonian simplicity. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "simplicity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thjeshtësi (bareness, chastity, commonness, informality, modesty, naivety, plainness, rusticity, unpretentiousness), natyrshmëri (naivety), naivitet (innocence, naivety). (various references) | |
Arabic | سذاجة (fondly, gullibility, innocence, naivety, naturalness, primitiveness, rusticity, triteness), بساطة (chastity, naturalness, plainness, rusticity, straightforwardness, triteness, unpretentiousness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глупост (density, fatuity, fatuousness, fiddlestick, foolishness, foppery, hokum, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, nonsense, puerility, silliness, stupidity, stupidness, thick skull, trash, unreason, unwisdom), откровеност (candor, candour, frankness, heartiness, open mindedness, sincerity, unreserve), непринуденост (affability, disengagement, ease, easiness, informality, laissez-aller, spontaneity, unconstraint, unpretentiousness), леснота (facility, lightness), лековерие (credulity, gullibility), простота (amplitude, homeliness, ingenuousness, innocence, plainness, rusticity, severity, tenuity). (various references) | |
Chinese | 朴素. (various references) | |
Czech | prostota (austerity, homeliness, innocence), prostoduchost (dimness), jednoduchost (plainness), hloupost (dullness, fatuity, fatuousness, foolishness, garbage, ineptitude, ineptness, lunacy, silliness, stupidity, trifle). (various references) | |
Danish | enkelhed. (various references) | |
Farsi | ساده دلی , سادگی (Naivete, Spartanism, Unreserve), بی الایشی , بسیطی . (various references) | |
Finnish | yksinkertaisuus (plainness), koruttomuus, kansantajuisuus, kansanomaisuus (democratic ways). (various references) | |
French | simplicite, simplicité (simpleness). (various references) | |
German | Einfachheit (austerity, elementariness, homeliness, humbleness, ordinariness, plainness, rudeness, simpleness, straightforwardness). (various references) | |
Greek | απλότητα (homeliness, neatness, plainness, rusticity, singleness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תמימות (completeness, honesty, innocence, integrity, naivety), תום (completion, innocence, integrity, naivety, perfection, purity, wholeness), קלות (ease, easiness, facility, lightness, slightly), פשיטות, פשטות (austerity, naturalness, obviousness, unpretentiousness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egyszerűség (artlessness, austerity, domesticity, modesty, self-denial, severity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kesederhanaan (austerity, modesty, plainness), kelugasan (matter-of-factness). (various references) | |
Italian | semplicità (artlessness, elementariness, homeliness, neatness, simplemindedness, simpleness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 簡易 (easiness, quasi-), 単純 , 単純性 , 単簡 (brevity), シンフェイン党 (banner, simple, simplify, Sinn Fein, symbol, symbol color, symbolic, symbolic link, Symbolics, symbolism, symbolist, symbolize, symphonic jazz, symphonic poem, symphony), 天真爛漫 (innocence, naivete), 敦煌 , 朴直 (honesty, naivete), 素樸 (artlessness), 素朴 (artlessness, naivete), 単純 , 直 (at once, being straight, cheerfulness, common, correctness, direct, earnestly, exactly, frankness, honesty, immediately, in person, just, mischief, near by, night duty, ordinary, soon, straight), 質素 (frugality, modesty), 簡潔 (brevity, conciseness), 簡潔性 , 簡素 (plain), 簡略 (simple), 簡略 (simple), 綺麗事 (fine skill), 軽便 (convenience), 質実 (plainness), 質樸 (unsophisticated), 質朴 , 無造作 (easiness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かんい (an official rank, daring, easiness, office and rank, quasi-, system indicating court ranks by headgear colors), てんしんらんまん (innocence, naivete), とんこう (honest and simple, sincere and kindhearted), じき (abandonment, at once, being straight, chance, cheerfulness, china, correctness, despair, desperation, direct, frankness, honesty, in person, just, magnetism, near by, next period, next term, night duty, opportunity, period, porcelain, season, seasons, self-recording, soon, time, writing oneself), けいべん (convenience), シンプリシティー , むぞうさ (easiness), かんそ (plain), かんけつ (brevity, completion, conciseness, conclusion, intermittence, intermittency, intermittent, investigation and decision, sweat and blood), ちょく (at once, being straight, cheerfulness, correctness, direct, frankness, honesty, imperial decree, imperial edict, in person, just, near by, night duty, soon), かんりゃく (simple), たんかん (brevity, single kanji), ぼくちょく (honesty, naivete, simple and honest), きれいごと (fine skill, glossing over, whitewashing), しっそ (frugality, modesty), しつじつ (plainness), しつぼく (unsophisticated), そぼく (artlessness, naivete), たんじゅん, たんじゅんせい, かんけつせい. (various references) | |
Korean | 간명. (various references) | |
Manx | thootid (idiotism, oafishness), onid (harmlessness, innocence, unaffectedness), neuchialgys, meehushtey (ignorance), macainys (innocence, naturalness, simple-heartedness), lag-hushtey, feerid (authenticity, axiom, perfection, reality, truth, veracity), aashaght (easiness, quietness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | implicitysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | singeleza de espírito (naivety), singeleza (singleness), sinceridade (amicability, candidness, candor, candour, fairdealing, faith, frankness, heartiness, honesty, sincerity, singleness), simplicidade (abandonment, chastity, frugality, homeliness, innocence, modesty, naivety, plainness), tolice (applesauce, barney, blunder, bosh, bungle, fiddle-de-dee, flapdoodle, folly, foolery, foolishness, guff, gup, howler, ineptitude, ineptness, infelicity, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, rot, silliness, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, twaddle, unreason), ingenuidade (greenness, gullibility, naivety, verdancy), falta de senso comum, disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, blether, bloomer, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, punk, skittle, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, tump, twaddle, unreason, unwisdom). (various references) | |
Romanian | simplitate (artlessness, chastity, greenness, homeliness, modesty, plainness, purity, simple-mindedness, simpleness), simplicitate, prostie (bosh, fatuity, Folly, foolery, foolishness, fudge, idiocy, ineptitude, lumpishness, madness, mischief, oafishness, obtuseness, obtusity, piffle, senseless remark, silly thing, stupidity, tomfoolery), nevinovãţie (harmlessness, innocence), naivitate (artlessness, credulity, credulousness, greenness, gullibility, naivete, naivety, simple-mindedness, sincerity), lipsã de afectare, claritate (clarity, clearness, definition, distinctness, evidence, explicitness, fairness, limpidity, lucidity, neatness, palpability, perspicuity, tangibility, transparency). (various references) | |
Russian | простота (austerity, plainness, primitiveness, simpleness, simplicities, tenuity, unpretentiousness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prostota (homeliness), jednostavnost (homeliness, plainness), budalastost. (various references) | |
Spanish | sencillez (elementariness, homeliness, informality, naivety, simpleness). (various references) | |
Swedish | lätthet (ease, easiness, facility, fragility, lightness, mildness), konstlöshet, enkelket, enkelhet (frugality, plainness, singleness). (various references) | |
Thai | ความเรียบง่าย (symplicity). (various references) | |
Turkish | sadelik (austerity, frugality, homeliness, plainness, severity, simpleness), kolaylık (airiness, convenience, ease, easiness, facility, straightforwardness), gösterişsizlik (modesty, plainness, unpretentiousness), basitlik (homeliness, primitiveness, smallness, vulgarity). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sadalyk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скромність (bashfulness, chastity, demureness, lowliness, modesty), обмеженість (exclusiveness, illiberality, insularity, limitation, naivety, narrow mindedness, narrowness, shallowness), нерозкладність, простота (artlessness, austerity, homeliness, plainness, rusticity, severity, simpleness), простодушність (artlessness, simpleness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính xuềnh xoàng, tính ngu xuẩn (foolishness), tính ngốc nghếch (fatuousness), tính hồn nhiên tính dễ hiểu, tính dễ làm tính ngu dại, tính đơn giản tính mộc mạc. (various references) | |
Welsh | symlrwydd, symledd. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | simplicitas, simplicitate, simplicitatem, simplicitatis. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 12, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eite o parakalwn en th paraklhsei o metadidouV en aplothti o proistamenoV en spoudh o elewn en ilarothti |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui exhortatur in exhortando qui tribuit in simplicitate qui praeest in sollicitudine qui miseretur in hilaritate |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Gif seo sie bemodigung, þætte he bemodige; gif seo sie help, þætte he gife rumheorte; gif seo sie lædung, þætte he wealde neodlice; gif seo sie mildheortnes, þætte he gemiltsie rotlice. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | He that stirith softli, in monestyng; he that yyueth, in symplenesse; he that is souereyn, in bisynesse; he that hath merci, in gladnesse. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Let him that exhorteth geve attendaunce to his exhortacion. Yf eny man geve let him do it with singlenes. Let him that ruleth do it with diligence. Yf eny man shewe mercy let him do it with cherfulnes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy. |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 12, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | ang nagamaymay, sa iyang pagpangmaymay; ang nagaamot, sa pagkamanggihatagon; ang nagahatag ug panabang, sa pagkamasibuton; ang nagahimog mga buhat sa kalooy, sa kasaya. |
| Croatian | je li hrabrenje - u hrabrenju; tko dijeli, neka je darežljiv; tko je predstojnik - revan; tko iskazuje milosrðe - radostan! |
| Danish | eller om nogen formaner, på Formaningen; den, som uddeler, gøre det med Redelighed; den, som er Forstander, være det med Iver; den, som øver Barmhjertighed, gøre det med Glæde! |
| Dutch | Hetzij die vermaant, in het vermanen; die uitdeelt, in eenvoudigheid; die een voorstander is, in naarstigheid; die barmhartigheid doet, in blijmoedigheid. |
| Finnish | jos kehoittaa, niin kehoittamisessaan; joka antaa, antakoon vakaasta sydämestä; joka on johtaja, johtakoon toimellisesti; joka laupeutta harjoittaa, tehköön sen iloiten. |
| French | et celui qui exhorte à l`exhortation. Que celui qui donne le fasse avec libéralité; que celui qui préside le fasse avec zèle; que celui qui pratique la miséricorde le fasse avec joie. |
| German | Ermahnt jemand, so warte er des Ermahnens. Gibt jemand, so gebe er einfältig. Regiert jemand, so sei er sorgfältig. Übt jemand Barmherzigkeit, so tue er's mit Lust. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun ki resevwa don pou l' bay ankourajman, se pou li bay ankourajman. Moun k'ap bay nan sa li genyen an, se pou l' fè sa san gad dèyè. Moun k'ap dirije a, se pou l' fè sa byen. Moun k'ap moutre jan li gen kè sansib la, se pou li fè sa ak kè kontan. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang mempunyai karunia untuk memberi semangat kepada orang lain, harus sungguh-sungguh memberi semangat kepada orang lain. Orang yang mempunyai karunia untuk memberikan kepada orang lain apa yang dipunyainya, harus melakukan itu dengan murah hati secara wajar. Orang yang mempunyai karunia untuk memimpin, harus sungguh-sungguh memimpin. Orang yang mempunyai karunia untuk menunjukkan belas kasihan kepada orang lain, harus melakukannya dengan senang hati. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | jikalau yang menasehatkan, lakukanlah atas jalan nasehat; dan yang memberi, hendaklah dengan kemurahan; dan yang memerintahkan, hendaklah dengan usaha; dan yang menunjukkan belas kasihan, hendaklah dengan sukacitanya. |
| Italian | chi l'esortazione, all'esortazione. Chi dà, lo faccia con semplicità; chi presiede, lo faccia con diligenza; chi fa opere di misericordia, le compia con gioia. |
| Latvian | Kas sludinâtâjs, lai sludina, kas dala dâvanas, lai dara to vientiesîgi, kas ir priekðnieks, lai pilda rûpîgi, kas strâdâ þçsirdîbas darbu, lai dara to ar prieku! |
| Maori | Ko te kaiwhakahauhau, kia u ki tana whakahauhau; ko te kaihoatu, kia mahorahora te ngakau; ko te kaiwhakahaere kia uaua ki tana mahi, a ko te kaiatawhai kia ngahau te ahua. |
| Norwegian | eller om en skal formane, på formaningen; den som utdeler, gjøre det med ærlig hu; den som er forstander, være det med iver; den som gjør barmhjertighet, gjøre det med glede! |
| Rumanian | Cine kmbqrbqteazq pe alyii, sq se yinq de kmbqrbqtare. Cine dq, sq dea cu inimq largq. Cine ckrmuiewte, sq ckrmuiascq cu rkvnq. Cine face milostenie, s`o facq cu bucurie. |
| Shuar | Chíkich shuar Ikiakártiniaitkiumka nekas pénker Ikiakárta. Súsatniuitkiumka shiir Enentáijiai ementutsuk Súsarta. Shuaran Wáinin Atí tusa Yus apujtamsaitkiuinkia ti Enentáimsam Túratá. Tura shuar itiurchat pujuinia nu Yáintinian Yus suramsaitkiuinkia shiir Enentáimsam Túratá. |
| Swahili | Mwenye kipaji cha kuwafariji wengine na afanye hivyo. Mwenye kumgawia mwenzake alicho nacho na afanye hivyo kwa ukarimu. Msimamizi na asimamie kwa bidii; naye mwenye kutenda jambo la huruma na afanye hivyo kwa furaha. |
| Swedish | är någon satt till att förmana, så akte han på sin plikt att förmana. Den som delar ut gåvor, han göre det med gott hjärta; den som är satt till föreståndare, han vare det med nit; den som övar barmhärtighet, han göre det med glädje. |
| Uma | Tauna to ria kola' -na mporohoi nono doo, bate tetu-mi-hawo bago-na. Hema-ta to ria kola' -ta mpowai' doo ba napa-napa, wai' -ramo doo-ta hante kamanara-ta. Hema to ria kola' -na jadi' pangkeni, kana mepakeni-i hante nono-na mpu'u. Pai' tauna to ria kola' -na mpewili' doo to mpe'ahii', pewili' -ramo hante nono to goe'. |
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"Simplicity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: semplici, simplcity, simplisity. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "simplicity" (pronounced si'mpli"sutē) |
| 8 | -m p l i" s u t ē | complicity. |
| 7 | -p l i" s u t ē | duplicity, multiplicity. |
| 6 | -l i" s u t ē | Felicity, publicity. |
| 5 | -i" s u t ē | analyticity, authenticity, domesticity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, ethnicity, specificity, toxicity. |
| 4 | -s u t ē | adversity, animosity, atrocity, audacity, biodiversity, capacity, complexity, curiosity, density, laxity, diversity, falsity, ferocity, generosity, incapacity, intensity, mendacity, monstrosity, necessity, obesity, opacity, overcapacity, paucity, perplexity, perversity, pomposity, propensity, reciprocity, religiosity, scarcity, tenacity, university, varsity, velocity, veracity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, austerity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, divinity, docility, duality, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, femininity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opportunity, originality, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, personality, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, velvety, venality, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, visibility, vitality, volatility, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-i-l-m-p-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: implicit. | |
-3 letters: mistily, spicily, tipsily. | |
-4 letters: limits, limpsy, mislit, mystic, pistil, simply. | |
-5 letters: clips, clipt, clits, icily, impis, imply, licit, limit, limps, lytic, milts, milty, misty, mitis, pilis, silty, slimy, slipt, spicy, spilt, split, stimy, styli, tipis, tipsy, typic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-i-l-m-p-s-t-y" | |
+4 letters: optimistically, simplistically. | |
+5 letters: compressibility, pessimistically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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