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Definitions for naiveté
nɑ ivˈteɪ, -ˌi vəˈteɪ, -ˈiv teɪ, -ˈi və-naiveté
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Princeton's WordNet
naivete, naivety, naivenessnoun
lack of sophistication or worldliness
GCIDE
Naivetenoun
An act displaying naivete; a naive remark or action.
Wiktionary
naïveténoun
Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.
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naivete
Naivete is the state or quality of being inexperienced, innocent, or unsophisticated, often resulting in a lack of worldly wisdom or judgement. It typically indicates an individual who is unpretentious, unsuspicious, or trusting, possibly due to lack of experience or understanding about complexities or hidden aspects of life or human nature.
Webster Dictionary
Naivetenoun
native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness
Etymology: [F. See Nave, and cf. Nativity.]
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Venetia
nieveta
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of naiveté in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of naiveté in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of naiveté in a Sentence
The damage inflicted by President Trump's naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate.
Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.
I like the fact that they're skewing Spider-Man young because that's how he is in the comic books. He's a young kid, and Tom Holland has this really great innocence and naivete but sense of subtle maturity.
When the announcement was made to defund the police … that just opened the doors to a level of mayhem where taboos were erased, standards were no longer acknowledged because only the cops could be wrong – a citizen couldn’t be wrong, and so, the naivete of the leadership to not understand how the lawless community would exploit their announcement was maddening.
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