1.
2.
[syn: artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness]
3. the likeness of a representation to the thing represented;
- Example: "engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Naturalness \Nat"u*ral*ness\, n.
The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
naturalness
n 1: the quality of being natural or based on natural
principles; "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the
spontaneous naturalness of his manner" [ant:
unnaturalness]
2: the quality of innocent naivete [syn: artlessness,
innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness]
3: the likeness of a representation to the thing represented;
"engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded
music"