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Noun: naturalness  na-chu-rul-nus
  1. The quality of being natural or based on natural principles
    "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner"
     
  2. The quality of innocent naiveté
    - artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness
     
  3. The likeness of a representation to the thing represented
    "engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music"

See also: natural, unnatural

Type of: alikeness [rare], likeness, naiveness, naiveté, naïveté, naivety, quality, similitude

Antonym: unnaturalness

Encyclopedia: Naturalness