plainness

noun

Etymology

From plain + -ness.

  1. derived from plānus
  2. derived from plain
  3. derived from plain
  4. derived from pleyn
  5. inherited from pleyn
  6. suffixed as plainness — “plain + ness

Definitions

  1. The condition of being plain (in all senses)

    • Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence And here choose I. Joy be the consequence!
    • Yet her beauty clung to her like an identity she was trying to deny and her plainness kept slipping like a bad disguise.
  2. The product or result of being plain

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA