simplicity

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Ostensibly for the sake of clear communication, this simplicity is usually supposed to manifest itself in the choice of plain words.

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  1. noun The property, condition, or quality of being simple or uncombined.
  2. noun Absence of luxury or showiness; plainness.
  3. noun Absence of affectation or pretense.

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  • Ostensibly for the sake of clear communication, this simplicity is usually supposed to manifest itself in the choice of plain words. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
  • But simplicity is false when you do not say a thing that you should say because you cannot say it in a certain way. —  The Summing Up
  • St. Francis was simple, but he had great qualities of mind and heart; and his simplicity was a perfection in him — not a defect. —  The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • In his simplicity was the proof of his abundance. —  The Great Italian and French Composers
  • ‘effort’, ‘productivity’, ‘moral worth’), but the price for this simplicity is a complicated and admittedly mysterious relationship between possessing desert bases and being deserving. —  Desert
 

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  1. Middle English simplicite, from Old French, from Latin simplicitās, from simplex, simplic-, simple; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots.

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/ (sĭm-plĭsˈĭ-tē)/
ahd pronounces "simplicity"
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