Dictionary

naïveté en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /nɑˌiːvˈteɪ/
• (US) audio
• /nɑˌiːvəˈteɪ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French naïveté. See also nativity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.
   • Maybe Mr. “Buckley” should know to be more skeptical about what’s dished out to him by popular culture. But apart from that, it’s hard to see how it’s his fault. He simply accepted what the most widely available and accessible sources of information claimed was true. For his naïveté, he was systematically misled and bamboozled. 1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:
   • “You see, I do not know how to pick out any particular part of the diary.” Even while he was speaking an idea dawned upon him, and he said with unconscious simplicity, in a different voice, and with the naïveté of a child: “That’s quite true, upon my honour. Honest Indian!” 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
   • In poring over these vile and well-preserved folders full of antisemitica in the Foreign Ministry archives, one senses a naïveté, even earnestness among Sugihara's generation. 2019, Hillel Levine, In Search of Sugihara:

Forms

Relateds

naïve

Synonyms

naivety · naiveness

Translations (32)

lb Naivitéit (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · be наі́ўнасць (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · ru наи́вность (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · ca ingenuïtat (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · el αφέλεια (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · sv naivitet (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · ko 순진 (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · bg наи́вност (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · hu naivitás (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · hy միամտություն (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · cs naivnost (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · cmn 天真 (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · de Naivität (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · grc τὸ ἀπειρόκακον (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · ca candidesa (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · gl inxenuidade (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · lv naivitāte (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · eo naiveco (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · fi naiivius (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · pt ingenuidade (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · he תְּמִימוּת (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · fr naïveté (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · nl naïveteit (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · es ingenuidad (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · nl naïviteit (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · et naiivsus (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · fi sinisilmäisyys (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · no naivitet (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · uk наї́вність (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · sk naivnosť (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · pl naiwność (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity) · az sadəlöhvlük (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity)