naivete
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7.9
- noun
- /nɑːˈiːvteɪ/
:
ingenuidad
- Her naivete about the dangers of the world made her an easy target for scammers.
- political naivete
- own naivete
I like to write from a position of naivete or ignorance.
- I like to write from a position of naivete or ignorance.
- I agree with that and I love your naivete about that.
- So I mean, what I actually in my naivete at that point, I mean, how old were you?
- It turns out that cynicism is not the opposite of naivete.
- So the only case that sort of really is left is the partial naivete.
- Do you think there was there was a bit of of naivete when I made my decision to run for president?
- And I don't know if I'm just like blind naivete or if, if it's just true that the soul has no gender.
- I appreciate being so protected in my naivete because I feel as if I was relatively unscathed.
- So in a way that's yeah, it was kind of that that punk rock cockiness and that small town naivete.
- I mean, I, I laugh at people's naivete to think what is going on today or what we grew up with is the end all.
- So at that time when you came, you had just a few scripts, just a few scripts, just a few scripts and a whole lot of naivete.
- And this raises the bigger issue and the naivete that we're observing and how we try to handle these situations all over the place.
Examples
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I thought perhaps it was my naivete that was making the evening seem so remarkable.
Academic text (2011) -
Indeed, overcoming political inaction and naivete is your next greatest challenge.
Academic text (1991) -
I agree with that and I love your naivete about that.
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And then when it's gone, you can never really have it again because part of it is your naivete making it so grand.
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Do you think there was there was a bit of of naivete when I made my decision to run for president?
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The past nearly four decades have demonstrated the naivete of this vision.
Academic text (2012) -
There is an element of naivete, I suppose, in what I describe.
Academic text (1996) -
I think it is your naivete I like best about you, Eleanor.
Fiction book (1997) -
I appreciate being so protected in my naivete because I feel as if I was relatively unscathed.
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Your naivete is astounding.
Synonyms
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3.5
Not knowing about the hard or bad parts of life
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6.1
Lack of experience or common sense that makes someone trust others easily
A lack of experience and knowledge about how the world works
Being too quick to trust people and not thinking deeply
A lack of experience and knowledge of the wider world that makes a person seem simple
The quality of being too trusting and lacking life experience
Antonyms
How Naive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Naivete comes from the French naïf and from an old Latin word that means 'born', which you can see in the English word native. So, naivete is the quality of being natural and trusting, like someone new or inexperienced who may lack strong judgment.