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Antonyms for naivete
nɑ ivˈteɪ, -ˌi vəˈteɪ, -ˈiv teɪ, -ˈi və-naivete
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Princeton's WordNet
naivete, naivety, naivenessnoun
lack of sophistication or worldliness
Antonyms:
mundaneness, worldliness, sophistication, mundanity
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
naïveténoun
Synonyms:
artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, candor
How to use naivete in a sentence?
The damage inflicted by President Trump's naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate.
Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.
I like the fact that they're skewing Spider-Man young because that's how he is in the comic books. He's a young kid, and Tom Holland has this really great innocence and naivete but sense of subtle maturity.
When the announcement was made to defund the police … that just opened the doors to a level of mayhem where taboos were erased, standards were no longer acknowledged because only the cops could be wrong – a citizen couldn’t be wrong, and so, the naivete of the leadership to not understand how the lawless community would exploit their announcement was maddening.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#22650 | sophistication | |
#101518 | naivete | |
#136304 | worldliness |
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