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naturalness|ˈnætjʊərəlnɪs|
[-ness.]
†1. Natural instinct, affection, or sympathy. Obs.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices iii. (1558) 131 Thys man forgot both godlinesse and naturalnesse that he might obteine the thynge that semed profitable. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. ix. 349 Our naturalness therein he greatly did approve. a1665Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 466 There is a kind of naturalness..between the ear of God and the prayers..of such a righteous man.
2. The condition or fact of being natural or in accordance with nature.
1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 212 This is no argument against the Immortality of the Soul, or the Naturalness of those Desires which we have of it. 1699Bentley Phalaris 140 The very facility and naturalness of every correction will be next to a Demonstration. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. (Bohn) 372 The naturalness of doing as others do. 1873Spencer Stud. Sociol. vi. (1877) 133 Those connexions..are not necessary, and often have no particular naturalness.
b. Close resemblance of a picture, etc. to the object represented.
1669A. Browne Ars Pict. 18 The like Disgrace happened to Zeuxes by the Naturaleness of his Grapes. 1695Dryden Parall. Poetry & Paint. Ess. (ed. Ker) II. 123 In the naturalness (if I may so call it) of the eyebrows.
c. The quality of possessing the distinctive features of external nature.
1841L. Hunt Seer ii. (1864) 61 Not that he omitted to expatiate on the extreme naturalness of the scene. a1876H. Martineau Autobiog. (1877) I. 184 Except the vine on its back gable there is not an element of naturalness or poetry about it.
3. The quality of being natural in conduct or bearing; unaffectedness.
1656W. Montagu Accompl. Woman 111 Naturalnesse has so gentle charms, as none resists, because they arise from innocence. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 85 Her own naturalness of character and simplicity of taste. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney III. 90 There seemed such a perfect naturalness—if I may use the word—about him. 1872M. Pattison Ess. (1889) II. 372 He had room in his affections for the naturalness of the Elizabethan writers, and for the artificial epigram of the French school.
b. With reference to thought, language, etc.
1702Addison Dial. Medals (1726) 84 The naturalness of the thought, and the beauty of the expression. 1815W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXVI. 415 An appropriate talk, a living naturalness, (if we may make such a word,) that give them all a hold on the memory. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life iii. ix. 116 The perfect ease and naturalness of his diction.
†4. Genuineness, legitimacy. Obs. rare—1.
1656Trapp Comm. 2 Cor. viii. 8 The germanity, the naturalness, legitimateness opposed to bastardliness.
5. One's natural condition or character.
1850Lynch Theoph. Trinal v. 74 The more hearty and varied our naturalness, the completer do we become. 1893J. Orr Chr. View God v. 205 Sin is the first step of man out of his naturalness. |