[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being artless; freedom from artificiality, frank simplicity, guilelessness.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, II. 331. Such a noble Simplicity in thy Story, such an honest Artlessness in thy Mind.
1879. B. Taylor, Stud. Germ. Lit., 126. The attractive quaintness and artlessness of the old dialect.
