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naivete
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence, gullibility |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
| Antonyms: | experience, leeriness, skepticism, sophistication |
| Main Entry: | candor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, directness, fairness, forthrightness, frankness, glasnost, guilelessness, honesty, impartiality, ingenuousness, naiveté, openness, outspokenness, probity, simplicity, sincerity, straightforwardness, truthfulness, unequivocalness, uprightness, veracity |
| Antonyms: | artifice, deception, falsehood, guile, lying |
| Main Entry: | chastity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celibacy, purity |
| Synonyms: | abstemiousness, abstinence, chasteness, cleanness, continence, decency, demureness, devotion, honor, immaculacy, innocence, integrity, modesty, monogamy, morality, naiveté, restraint, singleness, sinlessness, spotlessness, temperance, uprightness, virginity, virtue |
| Antonyms: | dirtiness, fornication |
| Main Entry: | ignorance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unintelligence, inexperience |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
| Antonyms: | competence, cultivation, education, experience, intelligence, knowledge, literacy, talent, wisdom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indiscretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
| Synonyms: | bumble, crudeness, dropping the ball, dumb move, error, excitability, faux pas, folly, fool mistake, foolishness, foul-up, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, hastiness, imprudence, indiscreetness, ingenuousness, lapse, miscue, misjudgment, misspeak, naiveté, rashness, recklessness, screw-up, simple-mindedness, slip of the tongue, slip*, slip-up, stumble, stupidity, tactlessness, thoughtlessness, unseemliness |
| Antonyms: | care, discreetness, discretion, right |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | simplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of complication, |
| Synonyms: | candor, chastity, clarity, classicality, clean lines, clearness, directness, ease, easiness, elementariness, guilelessness, homogeneity, ingenuousness, innocence, integrity, lack of adornment, modesty, monotony, naiveté, naturalness, obviousness, openness, plainness, primitiveness, purity, restraint, severity, singleness, sophistication artlessness, straightforwardness, uniformity, unity |
| Antonyms: | complexity, complication, difficultness, difficulty |
| Main Entry: | artlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | simplicity |
| Synonyms: | candor, ingenuousness, naiveté, naturalness |
| Antonyms: | experience, sophistication |
| Main Entry: | illiteracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiterateness, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illiterateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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