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• naiveté — or naïveté [nä ēv tā′, näēv′tā΄] n. [Fr] 1. the quality or state of being naive; simplicity; artlessness 2. a naive action or remark: Also naiveness or naïveness, naivety [nä ēv′tē] or naïvety …   English World dictionary

• naivete — (n.) 1670s, from Fr. naïveté, from O.Fr. naiveté genuineness, authenticity, lit. native disposition (see NAIVE (Cf. naive)). Anglicized form naivety is attested from 1708 …   Etymology dictionary

• naivety — (also naiveté) ► NOUN 1) lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement. 2) innocence or unsophistication …   English terms dictionary

• Naivety — naive redirects here. For other uses, see naive (disambiguation). Naivety (or naïvety, naïveté, etc.), is the state of being naive having or showing a lack of experience, understanding or sophistication. One who is naive may be called a naif.… …   Wikipedia

• naivety — /naɪˈivəti/ (say nuy eevuhtee) noun 1. the quality of being naive; artless simplicity. 2. a naive action, remark, etc. Also, naiveté, naïveté /naˈivteɪ/ (say nah eevtay). {French naïveté, from naïve} …  

• naivety — also naïvety noun (plural ties) Date: 1708 chiefly British naivete …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• naivety — /nah eev tee, ee veuh /, n., pl. naiveties. naiveté. Also, naïvety. * * * …   Universalium

• naivety — noun lack of sophistication or worldliness • Syn: ↑naivete, ↑naiveness • Ant: ↑sophistication (for: ↑naivete) • Derivationally related forms: ↑naive …   Useful english dictionary

• naivete — Synonyms and related words: artlessness, bluffness, bluntness, candor, childlikeness, cullibility, deceivability, directness, dupability, easiness, greenness, guilelessness, gullibility, hoaxability, ingenuousness, innocence, naiveness, naivety,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• naiveté — n 1. artlessness, simplicity, simpleness, simple mindedness, simple heartedness, innocence; trustfulness, unsuspiciousness, overtrustfulness; credulity, credulousness, gullibility, gullibleness, Obs. cullibility, foolability, exploitability,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• naivety — na•ive•ty or na•ïve•ty [[t]nɑˈiv ti, ˈi və [/t]] n. pl. ties naiveté …   From formal English to slang