noun

• 1The quality of being naive; lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.

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  • ‘his greatest fault was his political naïveté’

  Synonyms

  innocence, lack of sophistication, lack of experience, ingenuousness, guilelessness, naïveté, lack of guile, unworldliness, childlikeness, trustfulness, simplicity, naturalness

  1. 1.1Innocence or unsophistication.
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     • ‘some of the material is laughable in its naïveté’