MEANING
An innocent lack of experience that leads someone to underestimate complexity or deception.
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- political naivety
- youthful naivety
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The proposal revealed political naivety rather than bad faith.
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- naivety
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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