| NOUN | attribute | naiveness, naivete, naivety | lack of sophistication or worldliness |
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| Meaning | lack of sophistication or worldliness. | |
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| Synonyms | naivete, naivety | |
| Narrower | artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness | The quality of innocent naivete |
| credulousness, gullibility | tendency to believe too readily and therefore / therefore to be easily deceived / deceived | |
| simplicity, simpleness, simple mindedness | A lack of penetration or subtlety | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity | The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment |
| Spanish | candor, ingenuidad, sencillez | |
| Catalan | candidesa, candor, ingenuïtat, senzillesa | |
| Adjectives | naive | marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly / worldly experience |
| naive | not initiated | |
| naive | inexperienced | |
| naive | lacking information or instruction | |
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