All 3 Uses of
naivete
in
Doctor Zhivago
- The commissar's naivete embarrassed him, but the sly sophistication of the commandant and his aide-two sneering and dissembling opportunists-was no better.†
Chpt 2.5naivete = lacking experience or sophistication
- Naive by nature, she also affects naivete; and although she is still quite young, she already pretends to be younger still, prattles, twitters, plays the ingenue, the little foolish girl, the pure field lily.†
Chpt 2.8
- Yurii Andreievich said nothing, merely shrugging his shoulders and making no secret of his almost uncontrollable exasperation at Liberius's naivete.†
Chpt 2.11 *
Definition:
inexperience, innocence, or lack of sophistication