Etymology

naiveness

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English naive ← French naïve
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The story

  1. Frenchnaïf
  2. Frenchnaïve
  3. Englishnaive
  4. English todaynaiveness

From naive + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.