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also naivete
or naiveté
Synonyms & Antonyms of naïveté
1
the quality or state of being simple and sincere
- her naïveté led her to leave her new car unlocked while she shopped at the mall
Synonyms for naïveté
- artlessness,
- greenness,
- guilelessness,
- ingenuousness,
- innocence,
- naiveness,
- naivety
- (also naïvety)
- [chiefly British],
- naturalness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- unsophistication,
- unworldliness,
- viridity
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2
readiness to believe the claims of others without sufficient evidence
- though he was streetwise, the investigative reporter regularly assumed an air of naïveté when he was interviewing confidence men, charlatans, counterfeiters, and other assorted swindlers of the general public
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“Naïveté.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/na%C3%AFvet%C3%A9. Accessed 19 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of naïveté was in 1673
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