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 | ||