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Meanings of naivete in English

Portuguese
ingenuidade
Catalan
senzillesa

Lack of sophistication or worldliness.

ingenuidade
Usage of naivete in English
1
To believe that only one group can fight is naivete, he said.
Reuters
2
It is really extraordinary how two capable administrators showed such political naivete.
The Irish Times
3
There is a serious naivete in all her efforts in this direction.
The Women of the French Salons
4
There is a delightful naivete in this way of stating the fact.
Russia
5
Arendt lacks Cohen's naivete, and sustained an important critique of the nation-state.
The Guardian
6
Our foreign policy must be rooted in realism, not naivete or self-delusion.
State of the Union Addresses
7
And the princess' naivete played into the hands of the Widow's malice.
The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc
8
This naivete of expectation drove me to fury, but I restrained myself.
Notes from the Underground
9
Needed what they'd got, the naivete, the uncertainty, the delight at life.
The Neutronium Alchemist
10
Oh, what a woman she was, with her delightful naivete almost intact!
For Love Of Evil
11
O'Neil, however, appeared to find her naivete charming, and Eliza reflected bitterly:
The Iron Trail
12
For his moral convenience and ignorant naivete, he destabilized our entire region.
Man in the Middle
13
The naivete of the thought is repeated by the simplicity of the verse.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
14
Chris Hipkins tells us Labour is not guilty of political naivete.
Radio NZ
15
There was charming naivete in the nature of this grotesque, timorous old man.
The Fortune of the Rougons
16
An idle superstition, perhaps, but there is much naivete in the artistic temperament.
Tales of Chinatown
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