naïveté

See also: naivete, naiveté, and naïvete

English

Alternative forms

naivete, naivite, naïvete, naiveté, naivety, naïvety

Etymology

Borrowed from French naïveté. See also nativity.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nɑˌiːvˈteɪ/, /nɑˌiːvəˈteɪ/

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

Armenian: միամտություն (hy) (miamtutʿyun)
Bulgarian: наѝвност (bg) f (naìvnost)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 天真 (zh) (tiānzhēn)
Dutch: naïveteit (nl), naïviteit (nl) f
Esperanto: naiveco
Estonian: naiivsus
Finnish: sinisilmäisyys (fi), naiivius (fi)
French: naïveté (fr) f
German: Naivität (de) f

Greek: αφέλεια (el) f (aféleia)
Hebrew: תְּמִימוּת‎ (he) f (tmimút)
Hungarian: naivitás (hu)
Luxembourgish: Naivitéit f
Norwegian: naivitet (no) m
Portuguese: ingenuidade (pt) f
Russian: наи́вность (ru) f (naívnostʹ)
Spanish: ingenuidad (es) f
Swedish: naivitet (sv) c

Anagrams

Venetia

French

Etymology

From naïf +‎ -eté. Compare nativité, cf. also Latin nativitas.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /na.iv.te/
Audio (FR) (file)

Noun

naïveté f (plural naïvetés)

(usually uncountable) innocence, naïveté

See also

Further reading

“naïveté” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

éventai

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