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Unpretentiousness

Definition: Unpretentiousness

Unpretentiousness

Noun

1. The quality of being natural and without pretensions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Antonym: pretentiousness (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Unpretentiousness

Language Translations for "unpretentiousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

thjeshtësi (bareness, chastity, commonness, informality, modesty, naivety, plainness, rusticity, simplicity), modesti (demureness, diffidence, discreetness, modesty). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تواضع (behave modestly, demureness, humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty), ‏بساطة (chastity, naturalness, plainness, rusticity, simplicity, straightforwardness, triteness). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

непринуденост (affability, disengagement, ease, easiness, informality, laissez-aller, simplicity, spontaneity, unconstraint), естественост (genuineness, propriety). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

质朴 (funky, unpretentious, unpretentiously). (various references)

   

Czech

  

skromnost (humility, modesty), nenápadnost. (various references)

   

French

  

simplicité (unaffectedness), modestie. (various references)

   

German

  

anspruchslosigkeit (modesty, plainness, simplicity). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פשטות (austerity, naturalness, obviousness, simplicity), חוסר יומר ות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elfogulatlanság (candor, candour, detachment, impartiality, objectivity, open mindedness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etentiousnessunpray

   

Russian 

  

скромность (demureness, modesty), простота (austerity, plainness, primitiveness, simpleness, simplicities, simplicity, tenuity). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nepretencioznost. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

anspråkslöshet (modesty). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tevazu (humbleness, humility, modesty, nobleness, submission), iddiasızlık, gösterişsizlik (modesty, plainness, simplicity). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Unpretentiousness

Derivations

Words beginning with "unpretentiousness": unpretentiousnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Unpretentiousness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-n-n-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-t-t-u-u"

-2 letters: pretentiousness.

-4 letters: nonpersistent, penuriousness, unpretentious.

-5 letters: intentnesses, noninterests, prettinesses, rottennesses, septentrions, spinnerettes, unripenesses.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-n-n-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-t-t-u-u"
 

+2 letters: unpretentiousnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unpretentiousness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 70 72 65 74 65 6E 74 69 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#112 &#114 &#101 &#116 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0070 0072 0065 0074 0065 006E 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5580828471867180867581878580718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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