naivety
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naivety (uncountable)
- Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.
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- See WikiSaurus:naive
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lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity
[edit] Dictionary notes
- 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.