naturalness

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — natural sits at #857leans written

Naturalness is the quality of being unforced and unaffected. Admire her naturalness.

It is very hard to perform, since trying to seem natural is what destroys it. Naturalness on camera is a skill actors work at for years.

Definitions of naturalness

1nounnaturalnessThe quality of being unforced and unaffected.C1
“The naturalness of the performance was the whole of its charm.”

naturalness is a quality.

Where it comes from

From natural, from Latin natura, birth or nature, plus the English ending -ness.

Middle English
naturalnes
English, today
naturalness

From Middle English naturalnes, naturalnez, equivalent to natural + ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

naturalness in the wild

More precisely, considering the different aspects or components of an environment, it becomes apparent that their degree of naturalness is not uniform.
Natural environment
The heuristic rule that parameters in a fundamental physical theory should not be too fine-tuned is called naturalness.
Fine-tuning (physics)
All aviaries have natural plants which underline the naturalness of the park.
Olching Bird Park
Sites are selected using a number of attributes that include; habitat type, diversity and rarity of the species present, and the site's naturalness.
Site of Biological Importance
Media naturalness theory is also known as the psychobiological model.
Media naturalness theory

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