simplicity (n.)
- abatement
- abridgment
- affability
- agnosticism
- alleviation
- amentia
- appropriateness
- artlessness
- asceticism
- attenuation
- austereness
- austerity
- backwardness
- baldness
- bareness
- bluffness
- bluntness
- boorishness
- callowness
- candor
- casualness
- chasteness
- chastity
- clarity
- classicalism
- classicism
- cleanness
- clearness
- coherence
- combination
- comeliness
- commonness
- commonplaceness
- comprehensibility
- connectedness
- consistency
- contraction
- cordiality
- correctness
- cretinism
- dampening
- decrease
- decrement
- deduction
- definition
- deflation
- depreciation
- depression
- dignity
- diminution
- directness
- discrimination
- distinction
- distinctness
- dullness
- dying
- ease
- easiness
- easygoingness
- effortlessness
- elegance
- explicitness
- extenuation
- facility
- familiarity
- felicitousness
- felicity
- finish
- fittingness
- flow
- fluency
- forthrightness
- frankness
- freedom
- fusion
- grace
- gracefulness
- gracility
- graciousness
- greenness
- gullibility
- highroad
- homeliness
- homespun
- identity
- idiocy
- ignorance
- ignorantness
- imbecility
- inanity
- individuality
- inelegance
- inexperience
- infantilism
- informality
- ingenuousness
- innocence
- insanity
- intactness
- integrality
- integration
- integrity
- intelligibility
- irregularity
- leanness
- lessening
- letup
- limpidity
- looseness
- lowering
- lucidity
- miniaturization
- mitigation
- modesty
- mongolianism
- mongolism
- moronity
- naiveness
- naivete
- naivety
- naturalness
- neatness
- nescience
- obscurantism
- obtuseness
- oneness
- openness
- ordinariness
- outspokenness
- particularity
- pellucidity
- perspicuity
- plainness
- polish
- propriety
- prosaicness
- prosiness
- provincialism
- purity
- quietness
- rawness
- reduction
- refinement
- relaxation
- restraint
- retardation
- ruralism
- rusticity
- seemliness
- selfsameness
- severity
- simpleness
- sincerity
- single-mindedness
- singleness
- singularity
- smoothness
- soberness
- sociability
- softness
- solidarity
- solidification
- solidity
- spareness
- starkness
- straightforwardness
- structure
- stupidity
- subduedness
- subnormality
- subtraction
- taste
- tastefulness
- terseness
- transparency
- trustfulness
- unaffectedness
- unceremoniousness
- unconstraint
- unconventionality
- understandability
- understatement
- unequivocalness
- unfamiliarity
- unification
- uniformity
- uniqueness
- unity
- unknowing
- unknowingness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
- unwariness
- vacuity
- vacuousness
- vernacular
- weakening
- weakness
- wholeness
Of manners gentle, of affections mild;
In wit a man, simplicity a child.
Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free,—
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the adulteries of art:
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Elegant as simplicity, and warm
As ecstasy.
No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace. While it stands, the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine; and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and the name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot.
We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.
The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems.
And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill.
Rich in saving common-sense,
And, as the greatest only are,
In his simplicity sublime.
