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UK
/sɪmplˈɪsɪti/
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[ US /sɪmˈpɫɪsəti, sɪmˈpɫɪsɪti/ ]
[ US /sɪmˈpɫɪsəti, sɪmˈpɫɪsɪti/ ]
NOUN
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freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
the very easiness of the deed held her back
they put it into containers for ease of transportation
he rose through the ranks with apparent ease -
the quality of being simple or uncompounded
the simplicity of a crystal - absence of affectation or pretense
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lack of ornamentation
the room was simply decorated with great restraint -
a lack of penetration or subtlety
they took advantage of her simplicity
How To Use simplicity In A Sentence
- The impression of warmth and comfort and beauty predominated, though he was unable to analyze it; while the simplicity delighted him -- expensive simplicity, he decided, and most of it leftovers from the time her father went broke and died. Chapter XVIII
- The story is of the utmost simplicity: after a shipwreck, a sailor is lost at sea.
- Hunt was also to write that he and Millais used to stand in front of the Raphael cartoons (then at Hampton Court) and judge them fearlessly, also that they condemned Raphael's Transfiguration (which they had never seen) 'for its grandiose disregard of the simplicity of truth, the pompous posturing of the Apostles, and the unspiritual attitudinising of the Saviour.' Cosa Nostra
- Yet Walter so idealised the pretty child whom he had found wandering in the rough streets, and so identified her with her innocent gratitude of that night and the simplicity and truth of its expression, that he blushed for himself as a libeller when he argued that she could ever grow proud. Dombey and Son
- A neo-Classical representation of folk music and simplicity, this small work was written in honor of Enesco and Jora on their 60th and 50th birthdays.
- It was passed through history by the Shaking Quakers, the Shakers, and that particular song is a call to simplicity, which is very interesting.
- I decided to go for simplicity, and made compote, in the oven, pairing the rhubarb with some raspberries I had in the freezer.
- That was seven years ago, when minimalism, simplicity and modernity were prized.
- While the children may have acted according to the simplicity of their nature and were not considered legally or morally responsible for their actions, the annalist implied that adults should have known better. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- He knows where the work's heart lies and how to conjure its spell from the music 's limpid simplicity and antiquarian turns of phrase. Times, Sunday Times
