unpretentiousness

a.k.a. being unassuming or unostentatious or unaffected

Complementary virtues¶

• modesty
• straightforwardness

Contrasting vices¶

• folksy (can be a vice of excess if unpretentiousness becomes an affectation)
• making yourself out to be something or other
• pretentousness
• putting on airs
• trying to impress

Virtues possibly in tension¶

• gravitas

How to acquire or strengthen it¶

TBD

Notes and links¶

• scintillatingspeck.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/why-unpretentious-is-my-highest-compliment

Mentioned elsewhere¶

TBD

Inspirational quotes¶

• “Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.” ―Proverbs 12:9