SuaviloquyToday’s word

ingenuousness

Ingenuousness, n.

1. The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.

2. Ingenuity. [Obs.] Fuller.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for ingenuousness; he lists it under veracity.

Where he writes about it:

Candor, frankness, honesty, and ingenuousness are allied with veracity, and verity with truth, while truthfulness may accord with either. — from veracity