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naivete
/nɑˌivəˈteɪ/
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What does naivete mean?
noun
- Alternative spelling of naïveté.
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IPA pronunciation
/nɑˌivəˈteɪ/
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Let us take, for example, a woman whose relative naivete makes the process clearly apparent, to wit, a simple shop-girl.
I know nothing quainter in the history of English graft than the naivete with which the Bishop's biographer and son tells the story of this episcopal venture into reality.
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It is, above all things, direct and clear; and it is characteristic of himself in its simplicity, bordering on naivete, and in its absence of pretence.
To the educated and sceptical Athenian, as to the critical scholar of modern times, the physical resurrection of Jesus from the grave, and his ascent through the vaulted floor of heaven, might seem foolishness or naivete.
Those formal phrases, the very flower of small-town proprieties, and the flat commonplaces, nearly all hypocritical in their origin, became very funny, very engaging, when they were uttered in Lena’s soft voice, with her caressing intonation and arch naivete.