artlessness

Definitions

The quality of being natural, sincere, and free from deceit or guile.

A lack of skill, sophistication, or artificiality in execution or style.

Examples

The child's artlessness was refreshing in a room full of cynical politicians.

There is a certain charm in the artlessness of her early paintings, which capture the world with raw, unstudied honesty.

Synonyms

naivety innocence ingenuousness candor sincerity simplicity guilelessness

Antonyms

cunning sophistication deceitfulness artfulness worldliness calculating nature duplicity