variants also naïvety
chiefly British

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Recent Examples of naivety Innocence and naivety are lost during crises. Jason Phillips, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025 Related Articles Adding even more poignancy to the project is the voice of the narrator, an Italian woman in her 80s who had never acted before, and who expresses the bag’s thoughts with a blend of naivety, passion and sadness. Samantha Conti, WWD, 13 Feb. 2025 Unlike many child actors, Wright isn’t precocious so much as devastatingly genuine in her peculiar blend of wisdom and naivety. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025 Her daughter, 22, persistently tried to convince her of the scam, distressed by her mother’s naivety. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for naivety
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Noun
  • Many of those charged protest their innocence vehemently, but since anti-doping agencies apply strict liability principles and apportion responsibility irrespective of intent, the consequences hit hard.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • Foxx’s office later withdrew opposition to their certificates of innocence, enabling their lawyers to use these certificates as evidence in lawsuits against the police.
    Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The sincerity of Jackson’s sorrow is easy to believe in.
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • Tamron took this seriously and officiated with such honor and sincerity.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • The secret is that Spike’s know-nothing naivete encourages us to see the world through the eyes of someone who’s new to every part of it.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 June 2025
  • Is there intimidation, naivete, fear of being alone?
    EW Staff, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In a system built on civilian oversight of military and diplomatic power, ignorance becomes a liability.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • Commendably, both men filled their work with regular professions of their own ignorance.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025

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