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Definition
inexperience, 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.Book 12 — A Judicial Error (84% in)
- Do you hear that phrase uttered with such premature haste—'if not I'—the animal cunning, the naivete, the Karamazov impatience of it?Book 12 — A Judicial Error (65% in)
There are no more uses of "naivete" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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