"naïveté" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /nɑˌiːvˈteɪ/, /nɑˌiːvəˈteɪ/ Forms: naïvetés [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French naïveté. See also nativity. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|naïveté|sort=naivete}} French naïveté Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} naïveté (countable and uncountable, plural naïvetés)
  1. Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: naiveness, naivety, naivete, naïvete, naiveté, naïvety Related terms: naïve Translations (lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity): τὸ ἀπειρόκακον (tò apeirókakon) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), միամտություն (miamtutʻyun) (Armenian), sadəlöhvlük (Azerbaijani), наі́ўнасць (naíŭnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), наи́вност (naívnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 天真 (tiānzhēn) (Chinese Mandarin), naivnost [feminine] (Czech), naïveteit (Dutch), naïviteit [feminine] (Dutch), naiveco (Esperanto), naiivsus (Estonian), sinisilmäisyys (Finnish), naiivius (Finnish), naïveté [feminine] (French), inxenuidade [feminine] (Galician), Naivität [feminine] (German), αφέλεια (aféleia) [feminine] (Greek), תְּמִימוּת (tmimút) [feminine] (Hebrew), naivitás (Hungarian), 순진 (sunjin) (alt: 純眞) (Korean), naivitāte [feminine] (Latvian), Naivitéit [feminine] (Luxembourgish), naivitet [masculine] (Norwegian), naiwność [feminine] (Polish), ingenuidade [feminine] (Portuguese), наи́вность (naívnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), naivnosť [feminine] (Slovak), ingenuidad [feminine] (Spanish), naivitet [common-gender] (Swedish), наї́вність (najívnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiānzhēn",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "word": "天真"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "naivnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "word": "naïveteit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "naïviteit"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "word": "naiveco"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "word": "naiivsus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "word": "sinisilmäisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "word": "naiivius"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "naïveté"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inxenuidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Naivität"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "aféleia",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αφέλεια"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "tò apeirókakon",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "τὸ ἀπειρόκακον"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "tmimút",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "תְּמִימוּת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "word": "naivitás"
    },
    {
      "alt": "純眞",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sunjin",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "word": "순진"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "naivitāte"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Naivitéit"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "naivitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "naiwność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ingenuidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "naívnostʹ",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "наи́вность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "naivnosť"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ingenuidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "naivitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "najívnistʹ",
      "sense": "lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "наї́вність"
    }
  ],
  "word": "naïveté"
}

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