naïveté

== English == === Alternative forms === naivete, naïvete, naiveté, naïvety === Etymology === Borrowed from French naïveté. See also nativity. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nɑˌiːvˈteɪ/, /nɑˌiːvəˈteɪ/ === Noun === naïveté (countable and uncountable, plural naïvetés) Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity. Synonyms: naiveness, naivety ==== 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, rather than being pronounced like knave. ==== Related terms ==== naïve ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === “naivete”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “naivety”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. naive in Britannica Dictionary === Anagrams === Venetia == French == === Etymology === From naïf +‎ -eté. Compare nativité, cf. also Latin nātīvitās. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /na.iv.te/ === Noun === naïveté f (plural naïvetés) (usually uncountable) innocence, naïveté === See also === incrédulité innocence === Further reading === “naïveté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === éventai