| 单词 |
naïveté |
| 释义 |
‖ naïveté|naivte|
[F.: see naïve and -ty.]
1. An instance or case of artlessness; an artless action, remark, etc.
1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode iii. i, Such an innocent piece of simplicity; 'twas such a naiveté. 1756H. Walpole Let. to Mann 18 Mar., I have nothing more to tell but a naïveté of my Lady Coventry. 1780T. Davies Life Garrick I. x. 91 A kind of droll farce, full of ridiculous incidents, and certain bon mots, called naivetès. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets xi. 390 The affection of the Greeks for the grasshopper is one of their most charming naïvetés.
2. The quality of being naïve; artlessness; absence of pretence or conventionality.
1725Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. (1893) I. 482, I,..with great naïveté, desired to explain with her on the subject. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xviii, Sometimes she was compelled to smile at the naïveté of Annette. 1814Scott Wav. xxxii, He had a sort of naïveté and openness of demeanour. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 8 We have frequent examples of this naïveté of sentiment in the old mosaics. 1870Emerson Soc. & Sol. xii. 253 The naïveté of his eager preference of Cicero's opinions to King David's. |
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