ingénuen.
/ˈanʒən(j)uː/ An artless, innocent girl or young woman; also, the representation of such a character on the stage, or the actress who plays the part. Also as adj. = ingenuous adj.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > artless, guileless, or innocent
simple?c1225
innocenta1382
simple-hearted?c1425
unsubtlea1500
indolec1550
naïfc1598
sacklessa1600
plain-hearted1601
unnooked1602
unguileful1604
onefold1606
naivea1614
innocentious1624
innocential1628
excuseless1640
uncrafty1647
craftless1650
ingenuousa1662
innocentive1661
unartful1703
artless1714
ingénue1848
blue-eyed1903
the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > artlessness, guilessness, or innocence > person > young woman
homegirl1847
ingénue1848
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character
underpart1679
persona muta1714
travesty1732
soubrette1753
old man1762
small part?1774
breeches-part1779
character part1811
fat1812
chambermaida1828
fool?1835
raisonneur1845
ingénue1848
villain of the piece1854
stock character1864
feeder1866
satirette1870
character role1871
travesty1887
thinking part1890
walk-on1902
cardboard cutout1906
bit1926
good guy1928
feed1929
bad guy1932
goody1934
walkthrough1935
narrator1941
cameo1950
black hat1959
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actress > types of
tragedy queen1715
soubrette1753
jeune première1817
comedienne1834
old woman1838
tragedienne1841
ingénue1848
sob sister1912
voice actress1974
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 454 When attacked sometimes, Becky had a knack of adopting a demure ingénue air, under which she was most dangerous.
1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone xxv. 239 Mars herself could hardly play the ingénues, when in mature age.
1883 J. Hawthorne Dust I. viii. 134 Was this lady more or less of a woman of the world than he had imagined? Was there not, after all, something of the ingénue about her?
1923 C. Mackenzie Seven Ages of Woman iii. 112 My dear, innocence is a charming and attractive quality; but do not be too ingénue.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Mar. 161/4 Her French audiences, still demanding the ingénue, find her enigmatical and disquieting.
1958 Times 12 Nov. 3/5 The Nanetta..brings a vibrant line to music more ingénue than she suggests.
1967 C. O. Skinner Madame Sarah (new ed.) viii. 171 Every one of them, with the exception of an eighteen-year-old ingénue..declared to stay.
1973 Daily Tel. 16 May 15/2 And we were willing to put up with the quaint tale of the philandering husband and the sweet little ingénue Nanette.
Derivatives
ingénueism n.
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1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 5/3 French actresses grow in popularity and ingénueism the older they become.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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