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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- noun The property, condition, or quality of being simple or uncombined.
- noun Absence of luxury or showiness; plainness.
- 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 â” 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
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âeffortâ™, âproductivityâ™, âmoral worthâ™), 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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- 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)/
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