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Definition

inexperience, innocence, or lack of sophistication

She criticized the naivete of American foreign policy.

naivete = lack of sophistication

Her naivete makes her the butt of many jokes.

naivete = innocence or lack of sophistication

I found in him, on the contrary, an extreme mistrustfulness concealed under a mask of naivete, and an intelligence of considerable range.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
Just here, Franny, in apparent despair at the naivete of the question, struck her forehead with her hand.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
Do you hear that phrase uttered with such premature haste—'if not I'—the animal cunning, the naivete, the Karamazov impatience of it?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
This naivete of expectation drove me to fury, but I restrained myself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground
They had thought to have a good laugh at him and his naivete!
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
But the latter's good-natured naivete was so boundless that sometimes even he involuntarily yielded to Nicholas' good humor.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Is naivete really your armor?
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
He spoke to his companion, who made answer; then he replied with the naivete of a diverted child, "Wait till I say begin."
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
He responded at once by presenting himself at her home with all his disarming naivete.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
It's a conservative wish-fulfillment, a yearning for naivete.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Notice the youth, naivete, and indignation of the young Conrack enraged.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
The naivete of his words, Settembrini said, was less problematic than his fear of giving offense and his tendency to make concessions to the Devil.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Yurii Andreievich said nothing, merely shrugging his shoulders and making no secret of his almost uncontrollable exasperation at Liberius's naivete.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
As soon as he said this both Prince Vasili and Anna Pavlovna turned away from him and glanced sadly at one another with a sigh at his naivete.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naivete that you started with?
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
He was amused at her naivete and slightly touched.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
He liked naivete better.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
He had never seen so lovely a face, and was delighted with her naivete.
Jane Austen -- Emma

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