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naivete
Part of speech: NounNatural simplicity in speech or action.
Usage examples "naivete":- The dreadfully simple naivete of the beginning of it. - "This Freedom", A. S. M. Hutchinson.
- But in spite of her naivete, and of the excellent advice she gave to others, there were, for several years, innumerable difficulties with regard to the Archduchess Magdalen's confessor, Father Hezcovaus. - "Studies from Court and Cloister", J.M. Stone.
- " We fell on them, sword in hand," says one of the Conquerors, with some naivete; " for, if we had advised the Indians of our approach, we should never have found there such store of gold and precious stones." - "History-of-the-Conquest-of-Peru-with-a-preliminary-view-of-the-civilization-of-the-Incas", Prescott, William Hickling.