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NAIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naiveness mean? 

NAIVENESS (noun)
  The noun NAIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. lack of sophistication or worldlinessplay

  Familiarity information: NAIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NAIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Lack of sophistication or worldliness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

naiveness; naivete; naivety

Hypernyms ("naiveness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "naiveness"):

artlessness; ingenuousness; innocence; naturalness (the quality of innocent naivete)

credulousness; gullibility (tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived)

simple mindedness; simpleness; simplicity (a lack of penetration or subtlety)

Derivation:

naive (not initiated; deficient in relevant experience)

naive (lacking information or instruction)

naive (inexperienced)

naive (marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience)


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