Naivety

See also Naïve (album), and Naive (The Kooks song)

Naivety (the word also appears in its French form:naïveté) is the state of lacking experience or understanding and/or having a lack of sophistication. Much usage of the term appears pejorative - employed when the speaker does not wish to value child-like innocence or is in a child-like state of open-minded fresh thinking.

One can characterise various artistic works, both paintings and literature, as naïve. (See naïve art.)

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