Definitions for naiveté
nɑ ivˈteɪ, -ˌi vəˈteɪ, -ˈiv teɪ, -ˈi və-naiveté

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. naivete, naivety, naivenessnoun

   lack of sophistication or worldliness

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1. Naivetenoun

   An act displaying naivete; a naive remark or action.

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1. naïveténoun

   Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.

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1. 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.

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1. Naivetenoun

   native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness

2. Etymology: [F. See Nave, and cf. Nativity.]

Anagrams for naiveté »

1. Venetia

2. nieveta

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How to say naiveté in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of naiveté in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of naiveté in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of naiveté in a Sentence

1. Donald Trump:

   The damage inflicted by President Trump's naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate.

2. Marco Rubio:

   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.

3. Don Samuels:

   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.

4. Chris Evans ':

   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.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=naiveté
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=naiveté
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Naivete
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/naiveté