naïveté

See also: naivete, naiveté, and naïvete

English

Alternative forms

• naivete, naivite, naïvete, naiveté, naivety, naïvety

Etymology

Borrowed from French naïveté. See also nativity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɑˌiːvˈteɪ/, /nɑˌiːvəˈteɪ/

Noun

naïveté (countable and uncountable, plural naïvetés)

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

Translations

lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity

• Armenian: միամտություն (hy) (miamtutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: наи́вност (bg) f (naívnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天真 (zh) (tiānzhēn)

• Dutch: naïveteit (nl), naïviteit (nl) f
• Esperanto: naiveco
• Estonian: naiivsus
• Finnish: sinisilmäisyys (fi), naiivius (fi)
• French: naïveté (fr) f
• German: Naivität (de) f
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• Greek: αφέλεια (el) f (aféleia)
• Hebrew: תְּמִימוּת (he) f (tmimút)
• Hungarian: naivitás (hu)
• Luxembourgish: Naivitéit f
• Norwegian: naivitet (no) m
• Portuguese: ingenuidade (pt) f
• Russian: наи́вность (ru) f (naívnostʹ)
• Spanish: ingenuidad (es) f
• Swedish: naivitet (sv) c

Anagrams

• Venetia

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French

Etymology

From naïf +‎ -eté. Compare nativité, cf. also Latin nativitas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.iv.te/

• Audio (FR):

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Noun

naïveté f (plural naïvetés)

1. (usually uncountable) innocence, naïveté

See also

• incrédulité
• innocence

Further reading

• “naïveté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• éventai