naivety

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Singular
naivety

Plural
uncountable

naivety (uncountable)

  1. Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.

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  • Webster’s Third New International Dictionary has one full entry for naïveté / naiveté, and a separate entry for naïvety as a synonym of the first. It does not list the spellings naivete, naïvete, or naivety in either entry.