Meanings
nounsimple-heartedness (uncountable)
alternative simpleheartedness
- uncountableThe state or quality of being simple-hearted; guilelessness, sincerity, lack of sophistication.
... my slight intercourse with him added to the respect which I feel to those of his class, in whom generous feeling, sound practical sense, and shrewd judgment, are often found united with unassuming manners and simple-heartedness.
1998, John Francis McDermott, Before Mark Twain: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi, →ISBN, page 37
Origin
Translations
Polish prostoduszność
- prostodusznośćState or quality of being simple-hearted
Russian простоду́шие, простоду́шность
- простоду́шие (prostodúšije)State or quality of being simple-hearted
- простоду́шность (prostodúšnostʹ)State or quality of being simple-hearted
Ukrainian простоду́шність
- простоду́шність (prostodúšnistʹ)State or quality of being simple-hearted
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