simplicity
IPA: sɪmpɫˈɪsʌti
noun
- The state or quality of being simple
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- (archaic, rare) An act or instance of foolishness.
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Examples of "simplicity" in Sentences
- The term simplicity has two significations in English.
- The term simplicity has two significations in English. ”
- And you're right; this kind of simplicity is not only delicious, but also healthy.
- If simplicity is the goal I would recommend the single non-transferable vote (SNTV), which is probably the simplest PR-like system there is.
- A part of the issue may be that the word "simplicity" is that element which is quite often focused upon and in a rather narrow sense at that.
- Driving an SUV everyday as opposed to a single jet flight can only be argued in the sense of breakdown of the actions, merely equating them for the sake of simplicity is logically useless.
- Dandy was now upon what they call the simplicity dodge; that is to say, he affected that character of wisdom for which certain individuals, whose knowledge of life no earthly experience ever can improve, are so extremely anxious to get credit.
- The head of the same committee in the House, Rep. Bill Deeken, R-Jefferson City, said he likes the idea in principle and would be willing to have the bill heard, something Nodler said he expects because of what he called the simplicity of the legislation.
- To remedy this inconvenience, he concludes this spiritual substance much more noble than matter; that its prodigious subtilty, which he calls simplicity, but which is only the effect of metaphysical abstraction, secures it from decomposition, from dissolution, from all those revolutions, to which material bodies, as produced by nature, are evidently exposed.
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