The quality of being artless; innocent lack of artifice, guile, or technical skill; unaffected simplicity.
From artless plus -ness (suffix forming abstract nouns). Entered English as a way to describe the quality of innocence or lack of deception.
The Romantic poets loved the concept of 'artlessness'—they thought nature and children had a pure artlessness that sophisticated artists spent their whole lives trying to recapture, creating art about the absence of art.
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