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Webster 1913 Edition


Ingenuousness

In-gen′u-ous-ness

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Noun.
1.
The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.
2.
Ingenuity.
[Obs.]
Fuller.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ingenuousness

INGEN'UOUSNESS

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Noun.
Openness of heart; frankness; fairness; freedom from reserve or dissimulation; as, to confess our faults with ingenuousness.
1.
Fairness; candidness; as the ingenuousness of a confession.

Definition 2024


ingenuousness

ingenuousness

English

Noun

ingenuousness (countable and uncountable, plural ingenuousnesses)

  1. The condition of being ingenuous.
  2. (countable) An ingenuous behavior.
    • Aldous Huxley
      Time passed; Moira grew up, chronologically; but Sir Watney went on treating her as a spoilt child, went on being enchanted by her birdy chirrupings and ingenuousnesses and impertinent enfant-terrible-isms.