Naivety is an innocent lack of experience or suspicion. Youthful naivety, sheer naivety, the naivety of the plan.
It is usually a gentle criticism rather than a hard one, since it blames inexperience rather than stupidity. The French spelling naiveté is also used in English, with the accents, and naivety is the anglicised form.
1nounnaivetyInnocent lack of experience or suspicion.
“In her naivety, she believed everything the salesman told her.”
naivety is a quality.
From naive, French naif, natural or unaffected, from Latin nativus, native or inborn.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵenh₁-
Latin
nātīvus — native, natural
French
naïve
English
naive
English, today
naivety
From naive + -ity, English analogue of naïveté (naïf + -eté) borrowed from French. naive Borrowed from French naïve., feminine form of naïf, from Latin nātīvus (“native, natural”). a doublet of native.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA