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naturalness

noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about naturalness at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. The quality of being natural or based on natural principles.
    he accepted the naturalness of death
  2. The quality of innocent naivete.
  3. The likeness of a representation to the thing represented.
    engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music

Origin

From Middle English naturalnes, naturalnez, equivalent to natural + -ness.

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