simple-heartedness

noun

simple-heartedness

noun

Etymology From simple-hearted + -ness.

1

The state or quality of being simple-hearted; guilelessness, sincerity, lack of sophistication.

  • ... my slight intercourse with him added to the respect which I feel to those of his class, in whom generous feeling, sound practical sense, and shrewd judgment, are often found united with unassuming manners and simple-heartedness.1998, John Francis McDermott, Before Mark Twain: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi, →ISBN, page 37:

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