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naivety

/nɑːˈiːvti/

naivety noun: naïveté.

Noun

naivety (countable and uncountable, plural naiveties)

  1. naïveté

naivety meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

naivety in Tamil

வசதியின்மை, அனுபவிமின்மை

naivety in Bengali

সরলতা

naivety in Malayalam

unworldliness, innocence, ingenuousness
നിഷ്ക്കളങ്കത, നിർദ്ദോഷത്വം, ആർജ്ജവം, ശുദ്ധഗതി, നിഷ്കാപട്യം, അകൃത്രിമത

naivety in Kannada

ಅಕೃತ್ರಿಮತೆ, ಮುಗ್ಧತೆ, ಭೋಳೆತನ, ಬೆಪ್ಪ, ಮೋಸ ತಿಳಿಯದ, ಜಾಣ್ಮೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ

Forms of naivety

pluralnaiveties
alternative formnaïvety
alternative formnaivete
alternative formnaïvete
alternative formnaiveté
alternative formnaïveté

Origin of naivety

From naive + -ity, English analogue of naïveté (naïf + -eté) borrowed from French.

Questions about naivety

What does naivety mean?
Naivety means naïveté.
What is naivety in Tamil?
Naivety in Tamil is வசதியின்மை, அனுபவிமின்மை. See Naivety meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is naivety?
Naivety is a noun.
How do you pronounce naivety?
Naivety is pronounced /nɑːˈiːvti/.
What is the plural of naivety?
The plural of naivety is naiveties.

Words near naivety in the dictionary

  1. naives
  2. naivest
  3. naivete
  4. naivetes
  5. naiveties
  6. naivety
  7. naiveté
  8. naivetés
  9. naivism
  10. naivist
  11. naivistic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: naivety (page history and authors); naivety (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); naivety (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); naivety (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); naivety (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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