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I try to be naive...but I just end up looking like a knave!!! lol
| 12 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
You fly on high always searching for another save !
....it rhymes : )
I have known several young women who were quite talented at pretending to be naive, but were intellectuals in hiding because men, at the time, would not consider being shown-up by a more intelligent woman as their companion.
naive |n???v|(also naïve )
adjective
(of a person or action) showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment: the rather naive young man had been totally misled.
• (of a person) natural and unaffected; innocent: Andy had a sweet, naive look when he smiled.
• of or denoting art produced in a straightforward style that deliberately rejects sophisticated artistic techniques and has a bold directness resembling a child's work, typically in bright colors with little or no perspective.
DERIVATIVES
naively adverb,
naiveness noun
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from French naïve, feminine of naïf, from Latin nativus ‘native, natural.’
Considering the meaning and origin of ‘naive’…natural vs pretentious….It seems a natural woman has gotten an ill fitting connotation in the term.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
 
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