naiveté
Lack of experience
Naiveté is innocent lack of worldly experience or sophisticated judgment.
It can be genuine—a child's naiveté about money—or willful: His naiveté about politics bordered on denial.
The word often implies vulnerability to deception or manipulation.
Unlike ignorance, naiveté suggests a quality of character, not merely absence of knowledge.
Also spelled naivete or naïveté.
Absence of cunning
- artlessnessSincere, unfeigned manner
- ingenuousnessInnocent frankness, without cunning
- unworldlinessDetachment from material concerns
- childlikenessQuality of youthful naivety
purity · trustfulness · wide-eyed · openness · simplicity · unsophistication · freshness · wholesomeness
Lack of awareness
- unawarenessState of not knowing
- blindnessAbsence of vision
- cluelessnessLack of awareness or understanding
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
incomprehension · nescience · simpleness · foolishness · obtuseness · blankness · benightedness
State of being verdant
- rawnessUnrefined or exposed state
- immaturityUndeveloped condition
- callowYouthfully naive and untested
- unseasonedLacking flavor or experience
untested · unschooled · untried · wet-behind-the-ears · beginner · novice · neophyte · fledgling
guilelessness
Absence of cunning
- artlessnessSincere, unfeigned manner
- ingenuousnessInnocent frankness, without cunning
- unworldlinessDetachment from material concerns
childlikeness · purity · trustfulness · wide-eyed · openness · simplicity · unsophistication · freshness · wholesomeness · candor
obliviousness
Lack of awareness
- unawarenessState of not knowing
- blindnessAbsence of vision
- cluelessnessLack of awareness or understanding
unknowing · incomprehension · nescience · simpleness · foolishness · obtuseness · blankness · benightedness
greenness
State of being verdant
- rawnessUnrefined or exposed state
- immaturityUndeveloped condition
- callowYouthfully naive and untested
unseasoned · untested · unschooled · untried · wet-behind-the-ears · beginner · novice · neophyte · fledgling · tenderfoot
naivetéworldliness
Secular, experienced outlook
sophistication · experience · worldly wisdom · savviness · street smarts
naivetécynicism
Distrust of human sincerity
skepticism · wariness · leeriness · suspiciousness · distrust
naivetécraftiness
Shrewd, devious cleverness
artfulness · cunning · guile · shrewdness · wiliness
- naive artUntrained, childlike creative work
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