English noun: naturalness | |||
1. | naturalness (attribute) the quality of being natural or based on natural principles | ||
Samples | He accepted the naturalness of death. The spontaneous naturalness of his manner. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | ease, informality, naturalisation, naturalization, simmpleness, simplicity, sincerity, spontaneity, spontaneousness, unaffectedness, unassumingness, unpretentiousness | ||
Attribute | natural, unnatural | ||
Antonyms | unnaturalness | ||
2. | naturalness (attribute) the quality of innocent naivete | ||
Synonyms | artlessness, ingenuousness, innocence | ||
Broader (hypernym) | naiveness, naivete, naivety | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | innocency | ||
3. | naturalness (attribute) the likeness of a representation to the thing represented | ||
Samples | Engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | alikeness, likeness, similitude | ||