naïveté
/nɑˌiːvˈteɪ/
naïveté noun: lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.
Noun
naïveté (countable and uncountable, plural naïvetés)
- Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.
- “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
- 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...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
naïveté meaning in Marathi
naïveté in Marathi
- naïveté
- भोळेपणा bhoḷepṇā
Examples of naïveté in a sentence
- 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...
- 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:
Synonyms of naïveté
Forms of naïveté
| plural | naïvetés |
|---|---|
| alternative form | naivete |
| alternative form | naïvete |
| alternative form | naiveté |
| alternative form | naïvety |
Origin of naïveté
Borrowed from French naïveté. See also nativity.
Questions about naïveté
- What does naïveté mean?
- Naïveté means lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.
- What is naïveté in Marathi?
- Naïveté in Marathi is भोळेपणा (bhoḷepṇā). See Naïveté meaning in Marathi.
- How do you use naïveté in a sentence?
- For his naïveté, he was systematically misled and bamboozled.
- What part of speech is naïveté?
- Naïveté is a noun.
- How do you pronounce naïveté?
- Naïveté is pronounced /nɑˌiːvˈteɪ/.
- What is the plural of naïveté?
- The plural of naïveté is naïvetés.
Words near naïveté in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: naïveté (page history and authors); भोळेपणा (Marathi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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