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also naïvety
as in innocence
the quality or state of being simple and sincere
the contention that the royal family took advantage of the young Diana's naivety
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Recent Examples of naivety
There’s less of a child-like sense of innocence and naivety.
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Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2025
White, who died in 2021 just shy of her 100th birthday, played a widow and mother of five, Rose, who was known for her naivety.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
And yet, the system continues to reduce people to diagnosis codes and protocol templates, often leaving naivety at the door.
—Colleen Reilly, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
In that way, Broken Voices is about the circumstances that allow abuse to happen; Vitek is like a vampire, a cold and distant creature capable of great charm, and Karolina, in all her disarming naivety, is easy prey.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 10 July 2025
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But none of Wardlaw's newfound claims of innocence matter.—
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Gary Washington spent more than 30 years in prison and always maintained his innocence.—
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The Windsor family often shares moments during this time of year that reflect their warmth and naturalness.—
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Frogposting, then, pits the intractably byzantine, soulless and cutthroat nature of the contemporary economy in a simple binary against what the posters envision as the green, healthy, naturalness of the Earth—framed as a joke, the base unit of online commentary.—
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Behind the classy presentation is a working-class spirit, one that honors the simplicity of showing up, being yourself and doing your job.—
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The rover’s two-wheel design reflects UEL’s emphasis on surface mobility and system simplicity.—
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Know that conversations deserve deep sincerity.—
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Part of what comes to me, Roxana, is my sincerity and my earnestness.—
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Here in the United States, the writer and filmmaker Mike Judge has garnered praise over the course of his career for getting laughs out of broken systems and absurd ignorance in American culture.—
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In these special kinds of systems, even a minuscule amount of uncertainty in the measurement of the initial state of a system very quickly compounds into complete ignorance about its future behavior.—
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“Naivety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/naivety. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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