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/nɑˌivətˈeɪ/ Listen

noun

Naivete n.

The state or quality of being naive; lack of sophistication or worldliness.

Synonyms: naivete, naiveness. "A story which pleases me by its naïveté that is, by its unconscious ingenuousness."

An act displaying naivete; a naive remark or action.

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Etymology of 'Naivete'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Naivete" Quotes from Famous Books

... painter may produce the utmost relief he can by means of light and shade, but is peremptorily forbidden to use actual solidities on a plane surface. He must represent gold by colour, not by sticking gold on his fIgures. [This was done with naivete by the early painters, and is really very effective in the pictures of Gentile da Fabriano—that Paul Veronese of the fifteenth century—as the reader will confess if he has seen the "Adoration of the Magi," in the Florence Academy; but it could not be tolerated now]. Our ...

— The Principles of Success in Literature • George Henry Lewes

... either," returned the iron-founder, with grave naivete. "And, yes, I guess she meant it. But that reminds me. She knew I was looking for you and she gave me a note—let me see, I've got it here somewhere; oh, yes, here it is—gilt ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

... loved him dearly, but papa sent him away. Then there was Dick, the groom; but he laughed at me, and I suffered misery!" and she struck a tragic French attitude. "There is to be company here to-morrow," she added, rattling on with childish naivete, "and papa's sweetheart— Blanche Marabout—is to be here. You know they say she is to be ...

— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... school-boy. Thrown upon the world, his mind found itself fit for the world, and embraced it all. Nothing of that mind was lost in the infinite. Himself a poet, he knew only the poetry of action. He limited to the earth his powerful dream of life. In his terrible and touching naivete he believed that a man could be great, and neither time nor misfortune made him lose that idea. His youth, or rather his sublime adolescence, lasted as long as he lived, because life never brought him a real maturity. Such ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... be one of his mental and eternal friends, or rather friendships—since she existed in abstractu as far as he was concerned. For she did not find him at all physically moving. Physically he was not there: he was oddly an absentee. But his naivete roused the serpent's tooth of ...

— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

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