naturalness

1. 1.

   the quality of being natural or based on natural principles

   “he accepted the naturalness of death”

   “the spontaneous naturalness of his manner”

   Antonymsunnaturalness

   Broaderquality

   Narrowerunaffectednesssimplicitysincerityspontaneityeaseunpretentiousnessnaturalization
2. 2.

   the quality of innocent naivete

   Synonymsartlessnessinnocenceingenuousness

   Broadernaivete

   Narrowerinnocency
3. 3.

   the likeness of a representation to the thing represented

   “engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music”

   Broaderlikeness

Other forms of naturalness

plural

naturalnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about naturalness

What does naturalness mean?

naturalness means "the quality of being natural or based on natural principles". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in naturalness?

naturalness has 4 syllables: na-tu-ral-ness. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for naturalness?

Close synonyms include artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of naturalness?

The recorded antonyms are unnaturalness.

Is naturalness a common word?

naturalness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.