plainness
nounEtymology From plain + -ness.
1
Usually The condition of being plain (in all senses)
- Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence And here choose I. Joy be the consequence!c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Yet her beauty clung to her like an identity she was trying to deny and her plainness kept slipping like a bad disguise.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
2
Usually The product or result of being plain
- Synonyms
- normalcy, normaldom, normality, normalness
- Derived terms
- unplainness