2007-02-13 13:17:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
innocence or better yet, when something goes completely over your head - today's kids call it "green"
2007-02-13 13:39:04 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Naïveté is the state of lacking experience or understanding and/or having a lack of sophistication; innocent simplicity. Much usage of the term appears pejorative, employed when the speaker does not wish to value child-like innocence or a child-like state.
2007-02-13 21:20:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ADJECTIVE:
Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.
Unsuspecting or credulous: "Students, often bright but naive, betand losesubstantial sums of money on sporting events" (Tim Layden).
Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast" (H.L. Mencken).
Not previously subjected to experiments: testing naive mice.
Not having previously taken or received a particular drug: persons naive to marijuana.
And so many people were asking about it, they took it out of the dictionary.
2007-02-13 21:22:26 · answer #3 · answered by melissa 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
That you've led a sheltered life and don't know any better about certain things. Lack of experience.
2007-02-13 21:21:44 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think you mean naivete which is the condition of being naive. It is sometimes written with an accent mark over the last "e" (i.e., è).
2007-02-13 21:26:23 · answer #5 · answered by Lillian L 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It means innocence; as in someone who is naive...
The term "Babe in the Woods" just about sums it up...
Vandevere
2007-02-13 21:20:06 · answer #6 · answered by Ven D 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Put simply, it means "child-like ignorance".
2007-02-13 21:23:02 · answer #7 · answered by Ashleigh 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋