'naivete' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that means 'the quality of having or showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement'. For example, you could say "Her naivete made her more vulnerable to deception."
He never lost his simplicity of character, his rural accent and dress, his social naivete, or his unquestioning deference to authority.
Popular for their charm and seeming naivete, his paintings have a Rococo sense of the intimate and manifest the interest in social observation characteristic of the Enlightenment.
There is idealism but no naivete in that club: FC United of Manchester.
The careering bassline of last year's breakthrough single "Let's Go Surfing" evokes the hedonist thrust of some 1960s garage surf-band, heading pell-mell in their woodie to catch a wave, while at the opposite extreme, the slow, impassioned love song "Down by the Water" has the earnest naivete of classic girl-group pop from that same era.
Call it pride, stubbornness or maybe naivete, but men especially tend to keep at it until the job is finished — or, too often, until disaster strikes.
Mdala's intense loyalty and sense of gratitude sometimes bordered on naivete.
He is just an Oriental who sleeps in… Talk story about David Lu, the only full-time Chinese correspondent in the U. S. One bit of journalistic naivete that he would like to correct… Talk story about David Lu, the sole full-time Chinese newspaper reporter in the U. S.
Meanwhile, the Rat is back in their seaside hometown, disaffected, in a dead-end relationship with a woman of "utterly defenseless naivete" — the woman to whom, five years later, the narrator will deliver the Rat's belated goodbye.
"In my excitement and naivete as an amateur filmmaker, I got lost in the creative process and neglected to follow proper accreditation," LaBeouf wrote.
Writer learns to discriminate between "male" ads and "female" ads... Tells about Dockers's new "Nice Pants" commercials, which, for the first time in Dockers history, raise the subject of sex... Explains naivete is an important element in men's television fashion ads.
Torridge was naive to the point where it was hard to believe he wasn't pretending, but his naivete was real.
