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naïvety|nɑːˈiːvtɪ, naɪˈiːvtɪ|
Also naivety.
[Anglicized form of prec.]
= naïveté.
1708tr. Petronius Arbiter Pref., The Simplicity and Naivety is not to be imitated. 1742Hume Ess., Simplicity in Writing (1748) 260 The absurd Naivety of Sancho Pancho is represented in such inimitable Colours by Cervantes. [Note, Naivety, a Word which I have borrow'd from the French, and which is wanted in our Language.] 1798W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VI. 345 Three volumes..display occasionally, a grace and a naivety seldom surpassed. 1841Carlyle Misc. (1857) IV. 232 Shrewd simplicities, naiveties, blundering ingenuities. 1898Expositor Dec. 424 The..simplicity or naivety of the language of that Gospel. |