naivete Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun lack of sophistication or worldliness
    naivety; naiveness.

WordNet

Na`ïve`té" noun (Also<
  • Naivete
  • Naïveté
)
Etymology
F. See Naïve, and cf. Nativity.
Definitions
  1. Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.
    A story which pleases me by its naïveté -- that is, by its unconscious ingenuousness. De Quincey.

Webster 1913