naïveté

Etymology
Borrowed from. See also.

Noun

 * 1) Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.

Usage notes

 * According to Google Ngram Viewer corpus data, as of 2019, naïveté and naivety were the most common spellings; naivety was the most common spelling in British English while naïveté was the most common spelling in American English. naivete used to be the most common variant but dropped sharply after 2000. Whether the Viewer accurately tracks accents is unclear.
 * Comparing the -ete forms and the -ety forms as two groups yields that in British English -ety forms are slightly more common while in American English the -ete forms are much more common.
 * Spellings in dictionaries:
 * naïveté is covered by Merriam-Webster (as a variant), AHD, Collins (as a variant), OED and Century 1911.
 * naivete is covered by Merriam-Webster.
 * naiveté is covered by Merriam-Webster (as less commonly), AHD, Collins, Cambridge (as a variant), and Macmillan American.
 * naivety is covered by Macmillan British, Cambridge and OED.
 * US Government Publishing Office manual states that "Diacritical marks are not used with anglicized words" and mentions naive and naivete.
 * Guardian and Observer style guide indicates naive, naively, and naivety with no accent.
 * The diaeresis in naïveté is there to indicate the vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable.

Related terms

 * naïve

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: sadəlöhvlük
 * Belarusian: наі́ўнасць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: naivnost
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: naiveco
 * Estonian: naiivsus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ἀπειρόκακος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: naivitāte
 * Luxembourgish: Naivitéit
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: naivnosť
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: наї́вність

Etymology
From. Compare, cf. also Latin.

Noun

 * 1)  innocence, naïveté