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Refusal to accept one old soldier's unworldliness
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naivety
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alt. (alternative spelling of naïveté English) n. (alternative spelling of naïveté English)
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Naivety (or naïvety or naïveté ) is the state of being naïve , that is to say, having or showing a lack of experience , understanding or sophistication, often in a context where one neglects pragmatism in favor of moral idealism . One who is "naïve" may ...
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naivety \na*iv"e*ty\, Naivety \Na"["i]ve`ty\, n. Na["i]vet['e]. --Carlyle.
Usage examples of naivety.
The look he got implied that seldom had Nurse Radcliffe come across such depths of naivety.
There was a certain girlish naivety hidden beneath the bleached blonde hair and outrageous boobs.
This is to say the Afro- American characteristics which have been generally thought of as being African and primitive--his naivety, his exuberance and his spontaneity--are, in reality, his response to his American experience and not a part of his African heritage.
There was a sort of visual naivety at work there that verged on the hallucinogenic, but it did, I'd argue, make a warped sort of visual sense.