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Ingenuousness

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Noun

1. artlessness, ingenuousness, innocence, naturalness

the quality of innocent naivete

2. ingenuousness

openly straightforward or frank

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ingenuousness

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adjective
1. 
naive, artless, or innocent
2. 
candid; frank; straightforward

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Ingenuousness

see synonyms of ingenuousness
adjective
1.  Obsolete
of noble birth or nature
2. 
frank; open; candid
3. 
simple; artless; naive; without guile

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ingenuousness

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adj.
1. Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; innocent or naive: I'm not so ingenuous as to believe everything he says. See Synonyms at naive.
2. Straightforward or frank; candid: "I must be so ingenuous as to own that the accounts are not so certain as to the exact time and place of his birth" (Memoir of Martinus Scriblerus).

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