unconstraintn.
/ˌʌnkənˈstreɪnt/, /ˌʌŋkənˈstreɪnt/, U.S. /ˌənkənˈstreɪnt/ (un- prefix1 6.)
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > naturalness or lack of constraint
unconstrainedness1656
shamelessness1667
unconstraint1713
self-abandonment1811
abandon1815
abandonment1834
self-abandon1837
free-and-easiness1842
1713 H. Felton Diss. Reading Classics 76 Dryden..wanted that Easiness..that Air of Freedom and Unconstraint..which is more sensibly to be perceived, than described.
1851 D. Coleridge in H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia II. 268 The characteristic unconstraint and naïveté of the style carries with it an air of genuineness.
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys xxviii It was so hard for him with..his habits of unconstraint, to remember the traditional sanctities of the place.
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