ingenuousness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]ingenuousness (countable and uncountable, plural ingenuousnesses)
- The condition of being ingenuous.
- (countable) An ingenuous behavior.
- 1930, Aldous Huxley, Brief Candles:
- Time passed; Moira grew up, chronologically; but Sir Watney went on treating her as a spoilt child, went on being enchanted by her birdy chirrupings and ingenuousnesses and impertinent enfant-terrible-isms.
Translations
[edit]the condition of being ingenuous
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