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Definition: Naivety |
NaivetyNoun1. Lack of sophistication or worldliness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: NaivetySynonyms: naiveness (n), naivete (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sophistication (n). (additional references) |
| "Naivety" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Naivety" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 104 | 31,955 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
naivety | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "naivety"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | natyrshmëri (simplicity), naivitet (innocence, simplicity), thjeshtësi (bareness, chastity, commonness, informality, modesty, plainness, rusticity, simplicity, unpretentiousness), padjallëzi, çiltërsi (candidness, candor, candour, frankness, freedom, heartiness, innocence, openness, sincerity). (various references) | |
Arabic | سذاجة (fondly, gullibility, innocence, naturalness, primitiveness, rusticity, simplicity, triteness), السذاجة (credulity), البساطة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | непрестореност, наивност (gullibility, ingenuousness, innocence, naivete, viridity), лековерност (naivete). (various references) | |
Czech | naivita (naivete). (various references) | |
French | naïveté (naivete, naturalness). (various references) | |
German | naivität (greenness, naivete, naivity), einfalt (naivete, simplemindedness, simple-mindedness, simplicity). (various references) | |
Greek | αφέλεια (artlessness, ingenuousness, naiveness, naivete, simpleness, simplicity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תמימות "עים (unanimity), תמימות (completeness, honesty, innocence, integrity, simplicity), תום לב (honesty, integrity), תום (completion, innocence, integrity, perfection, purity, simplicity, wholeness), איביות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | természetesség (naiveté, naturalism, naturalness), naivitás (naiveté), ártatlanság (artlessness, innocence, naiveté, naivete). (various references) | |
Italian | ingenuita\ (naiveness), ingenuit (artlessness, greenness, gullibility, ingenuousness). (various references) | |
Manx | credjalaght (credulity). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aivetynay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | simplicidade (abandonment, chastity, frugality, homely, innocence, modesty, plains, simplicity), observação ingénua, ingenuidade (greenness, gullible, simplicity, verdancy), ingénuo (callow, candid, dupe, fool, green, gullible, ingenuity, ingenuous, naive, non payment, outage, shirt-sleeve, simple, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, verdant). (various references) | |
Romanian | naivitate (artlessness, credulity, credulousness, greenness, gullibility, naivete, simple-mindedness, simplicity, sincerity). (various references) | |
Russian | наивность (innocence), наивное замечание, наивная реплика, безыскусственность (rusticity), простоватость, простодушие (simplicity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | naivnost (naivete), bezazlenost (naivete). (various references) | |
Spanish | sencillez (elementariness, homeliness, informality, simpleness, simplicity), inocencia (innocence), ingenuidad (ingenuousness, naiveness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity), candor (candidness, candor, candour, innocence). (various references) | |
Swedish | naivitet (ingenuousness, innocence, naïveté, naivete). (various references) | |
Thai | ความซื่อตรง. (various references) | |
Turkish | saflık (chastity, credulity, gullibility, ingenuousness, innocence, naivete, purity, refinement, simple-mindedness, trueness). (various references) | |
Ukranian | обмеженість (exclusiveness, illiberality, insularity, limitation, narrow mindedness, narrowness, shallowness, simplicity), недалекість, наївність (innocence, innocency). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính ngây thơ (fondness), tính khờ khạo lời nói ngây thơ, tính chất phác tính ngờ nghệch, lời nói khờ khạo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Naivety" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nailery, Naivasha, naivet, naiviety, naivity, naivte, Naizet, Navet, Navuth. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "naivety" (pronounced 'Na"["i]ve`ty'): Anaplasty, Autoplasty, Canthoplasty, Cheiloplasty, Coreplasty, Fool-hasty, Galvanoplasty, Helcoplasty, hoity-toity, Homoplasty, Labioplasty, Meloplasty, Morioplasty, Neoplasty, Osteomanty, Osteoplasty, Pederasty, Perineoplasty, Photo-epinasty, Purparty, rhinoplasty, Staphyloplasty, Stomatoplasty, Theopneusty, Uraniscoplasty, uranoplasty, Urethroplasty. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-t-v-y" | |
-1 letter: native, vanity. | |
-2 letters: entia, naevi, naive, tenia, tinea, veiny, vitae, yenta. | |
-3 letters: ante, anti, ayin, envy, etna, nave, navy, neat, nevi, nite, tain, tine, tiny, tivy, tyin, tyne, vain, vane, vein, vena, vent, vina, vine, viny, vita, yean, yeti. | |
-4 letters: ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, any, ate, ave, aye, eat, eta, ivy, nae, nay, net, nit, tae, tan, tav, tea, ten, tie, tin, tye, van, vat, vet, via, vie, yea, yen, yet, yin. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, an, at, ay, en, et, in, it, na, ne, ta, ti, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-t-v-y" | |
+1 letter: natively, venality. | |
+2 letters: sylvanite. | |
+3 letters: inactively, inevitably, inveteracy, negatively, negativity, sylvanites, veterinary. | |
+4 letters: antipoverty, antislavery, attentively, eventuality, evidentiary, expansivity, genitivally, intervalley, inviolately, narratively, normatively, overanxiety, overstaying, plaintively, syncopative, tentatively, travestying, ventilatory, vineyardist. | |
+5 letters: ambivalently, devotionally, equivalently, evidentially, evolutionary, inadvertency, inchoatively, indicatively, innovatively, intervalleys, inveterately, irrelevantly, ruminatively, transitively, universality, valetudinary, venerability, vineyardists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 69 76 65 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- .. ...- . - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a i v e t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0069 0076 0065 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48677588718691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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