simplicity

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For our product, simplicity and ease are core goals.

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Quick take

the quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the simplicity of a crystal"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of simplicity gathered in one view.

noun

the quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the simplicity of a crystal"

noun

a lack of penetration or subtlety; "they took advantage of her simplicity"

noun

absence of affectation or pretense

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for simplicity.

noun

the quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the simplicity of a crystal"

noun

a lack of penetration or subtlety; "they took advantage of her simplicity"

noun

absence of affectation or pretense

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freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of the deed held her back"

noun

lack of ornamentation; "the room was simply decorated with great restraint"

See also: chasteness, restraint, simpleness

Example sentences

For our product, simplicity and ease are core goals.

The handy rule I've been using is simple: simplicity.

This appeals to a lot of people because of its clear "carrot/stick" mentality and overall simplicity.

When we create complex and over-engineered systems, is it because we forget that simplicity is better?I don't think we do.

The simplicity of the distrokid landing page makes me weirdly happy:* Clear headline right under the logo that explains the service.

Getting rid of top contributors at least makes management's belief structure valid and gives their world a kind of simplicity and intellectual coherence that's hard to achieve on a large scale.

It adopted JavaScript's duck-types but lost the simplicity of the language; it adopted Haskell's algebraic types, but lost the control over side-effects; it adopted Java's OO types, but again, lost their static-type simplicity.

For instance, simplicity is defined in terms of brevity & terseness but the example used to prove the point is that Eiffel requires "character" and "integer" whereas C only requires "char" and "int".For an alternative point of view on what constitutes "brevity" and "simplicity", see the common C idioms for filtering or mapping any variable sized data structure.