Meaning & use
guilelessness
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The quality of being innocent, honest, and free from deceit or cunning.
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Her guilelessness made her an easy target for con artists.
The child answered every question with disarming guilelessness.
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The word builds on "guile," meaning cunning deceit, with the negating suffix "-less" and the noun-forming "-ness."
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