naïveté
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French naïveté. See also nativity.
Pronunciation
Noun
naïveté (countable and uncountable, plural naïvetés)
- Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.
Translations
lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity
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French
Etymology
From naïf + -eté. Compare nativité, cf. also Latin nativitas.
Pronunciation
Noun
naïveté f (plural naïvetés)
- (usually uncountable) innocence, naïveté
See also
Further reading
- “naïveté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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