Innocence, guilelessness; honesty; = simpleness, n. 1. Obsolete.

Absence of deceitfulness or duplicity; innocence, guilelessness; honesty, integrity.

Freedom from cunning or artifice; guilelessness, artlessness, simplicity; hence, want of knowledge or sense, ignorance, silliness.

Absence of deceitfulness or duplicity; sincerity, openness; guilelessness, artlessness. Also: lack of affectation or pretension; naturalness…

= innocence, n. 3.

Freedom from dissimulation or reserve; straightforwardness, sincerity; openness, frankness, candour.

The quality of being artless; esp. freedom from artificiality; frank simplicity, guilelessness.

The state or quality of being naive; = naïveté, n. 2.

The state or quality of being naive; innocence, artlessness, absence of pretence; (in later use also) lack of experience, judgement, or wisdom. Cf. na…

Innocence, guilelessness.

The state or quality of being naive; = naïveté, n. 2. Cf. naivety, n. 1.

singleness, unity; simplicity.

The quality of truthful correspondence between inner feelings and their outward expression; unaffectedness, sincerity.