Etymology

naïveté

Today it means: Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity. Full definition →

French naïveté
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  1. French · borrowed fromnaïveté
  2. English todaynaïveté

Borrowed from French naïveté. See also nativity.

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