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Simpler vs Simplicity - What's the difference?

simpler | simplicity |

As nouns the difference between simpler and simplicity

is that simpler is (archaic) one who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs) while simplicity is the quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.

As an adjective simpler

is (simple) less complicated or challenging.

simpler

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (simple) Less complicated or challenging.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
  • * 1781 , , Miscellanies'', Essay VII, ''On the Linnæan System , page 273:
    • One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler , who is not acquainted with it under the name given by Gerard or Ray.
  • * 1833 , William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself , page 48:
    • … may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler' never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour ' simpler is very liable to.

    Synonyms

    * simplist

    Anagrams

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    simplicity

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (wikipedia simplicity)
  • The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.
  • The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.
  • Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.
  • Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.
  • Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration.
  • Freedom from complication; efficiency.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.
  • (rare) An act or instance of foolishness.
  • *, II.31:
  • *:speaking of the great simplicity we commit, in leaving yong children under the government and charge of their fathers and parents.

    • Antonyms

    * complexity * complication

    Related terms

    * simple

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