Simplicity Meaning
/sɪmˈplɪsɪti/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe state or quality of being simple
nounThe state or quality of being simple, The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
Sentence Examples
His story was simplicity itself.
I like the simplicity of her dress.
The road to simplicity is paved with hellish complexities.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The beauty of the design lies in its ____, with no unnecessary parts.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The modern house was designed with ____ in mind, featuring clean lines and open spaces.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English simplicite, from Old French simplicite, from Latin simplicitās, from simplex (“simple”). See simple. Partially displaced native English onefoldness.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"2. Simplicity, with the least number of working parts, all readily visible and accessible."
— 1951 July, “British Standard Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, pages 438-439:
"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
— 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023:
"speaking of the great simplicity we commit, in leaving yong children under the government and charge of their fathers and parents."
— 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The beauty of the design lies in its ____, with no unnecessary parts.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The modern house was designed with ____ in mind, featuring clean lines and open spaces.