naïveté - Wiktionary, the free dictionary According to Google Ngram Viewer corpus data, as of 2019, naïveté and naivety were the most common spellings; naivety was the most common spelling in British English while naïveté was the most common spelling in American English [1] naivete used to be the most common variant but dropped sharply after 2000 [1]
naïveté, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary Freedom from cunning or artifice; guilelessness, artlessness, simplicity; hence, want of knowledge or sense, ignorance, silliness Absence of deceitfulness or duplicity; sincerity, openness; guilelessness, artlessness
Naivety - Wikipedia It refers to an apparent or actual lack of experience and sophistication, often describing a neglect of pragmatism in favor of moral idealism A naïve may be called a naïf In its early use, the word naïve meant "natural or innocent", and did not connote ineptitude
Naiveté - definition of naiveté by The Free Dictionary The state or quality of being inexperienced or unsophisticated, especially in being artless, credulous, or uncritical 2 An artless, credulous, or uncritical statement or act [French naïveté, from Old French naivete, native disposition, from naif, artless; see naive ] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition
NAIVETÉ definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary She was a manipulative woman, but her power was very limited, and in our naiveté we saw her as a villain She couldn't bear to think of the woman laughing behind his back, exploiting his gentility, his naïveté But naïveté, of course, was a part of love: that was one of its weaknesses