Associations to the word «Naiveness»

Wiktionary

NAÏVENESS, noun. A quality of being naïve; naïveté.
NAIVENESS, noun. Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.

Dictionary definition

NAIVENESS, noun. Lack of sophistication or worldliness.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats