From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Naivet'e \Na'["i]ve't['e]"\, noun [F. See {Na["i]ve}, and cf. {Nativity}.] The state or quality of being naive. [1913 Webster +PJC]
A story which pleases me by its na["i]vet['e] -- that is, by its unconscious ingenuousness. --De Quincey. n.
1. lack of sophistication or worldliness.
Syn: naivete, naiveness. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: lack of sophistication or worldliness [syn: {naivety}, {naiveness}] [ant: {sophistication}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "naivete": artlessness, bluffness, bluntness, candor, childlikeness, cullibility, deceivability, directness, dupability, easiness, greenness, guilelessness, gullibility, hoaxability, ingenuousness, innocence, naiveness, naivety, openheartedness, openness, outspokenness, persuadability, plainness, seduceability, simpleheartedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness of heart, softness, trustfulness, unguardedness, unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, unsuspiciousness, unwariness, weakness
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