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111veracity — n. Truthfulness, truth, ingenuousness, honesty, candor, frankness …
112ingenuous — adjective inexperienced, simple, trusting, and honest ingenuously adverb ingenuousness noun (U) opposite disingenuous …
113innocence — noun 1) he protested his innocence Syn: guiltlessness, blamelessness, irreproachability 2) the innocence of Sleeping Beauty is beyond the comprehension of these young girls Syn: virginity, chastity, chasteness, purity; integrity, morality,… …
114affectation — *pose, air, mannerism Analogous words: *pretense, pretension: pretentiousness, ostenta tion (see corresponding adjectives at SHOWY) Antonyms: artlessness Contrasted words: naturalness, simplicity, ingenuousness, naivete, unsophistication (see… …
115credulous — credulous, gullible both mean unduly trusting or confiding but they differ significantly in their implications as do their corresponding nouns credulity and gullibility. Credulous and credulity stress a tendency to believe readily and… …
116cunning — adj 1 ingenious, *clever, adroit Analogous words: skillful, skilled, adept, *proficient, expert, masterly 2 crafty, tricky, artful, *sly, foxy, insidious, wily, guileful Analogous words: devious, oblique, *crooked …
117guile — n duplicity, dissimulation, cunning, *deceit Analogous words: trickery, double dealing, chicanery, chicane, *deception: craft, artifice (see ART) Antonyms: ingenuousness: candor …
118spontaneity — *abandon, *unconstraint Analogous words: spontaneousness, instinctiveness, impulsiveness (see corresponding adjectives at SPONTANEOUS): extem poraneousness, offhandedness, unpremeditatedness (see corresponding adjectives at EXTEMPORANEOUS):… …
119unconstraint — unconstraint, abandon, spontaneity can all denote the free and uninhibited expression of one s thoughts or feelings or the quality of mood or style resulting from a free yielding to impulse. Unconstraint is the most general term and may be used… …
120artlessness — n 1. openness, openheartedness, ingenuousness, guilelessness, sincerity, sincereness, genuineness, undeceptiveness, undeceitfulness; naturalness, unaffectedness, unpretentiousness. 2. candor, candidness, frankness, forthrightness,… …
