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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Artlessness or credulity; naiveté.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as naïveté.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Naïveté.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of naïveté.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun lack of sophistication or worldliness

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  • Song quotation on naïve.

    December 27, 2008