Naivety in a sentence as a noun

Is it just naivety or what are your intentions? If information "is there" it is going to be used.

But that was out of naivety, or fear. Either I was naive about the existence of the issue, or I felt like "I need this job too bad to be too demanding."

I think part of my naivety comes from my trusting upbringing in a rural part of a small country. Either way, it was not the best end to my 5 years in the US, and I doubt I'll be going back anytime soon.

Very poor handling and it does suggest a degree of naivety on the part of management. Having said that, the founder's wife also admits that her actions were a role in his departure.

As someone with pretty deep technological experience, his naivety to such matters is a bit off putting to say the least.

Great point, and this is a big reason why the "I have nothing to hide" argument comes from a position of childlike naivety. Even if you have nothing to hide, what about your members of parliament?

Just because users are naive, and that such naivety is encouraged by greedy parties, does not mean that the feature should not exist. Certificate Authorities?

This is the kind of naivety that you would expect from someone unfamiliar with the internet; not someone who works with programmers for a living.

This shows surprising naivety about what is happening in China. To generalise massively, Chinese aren't trying to move money out of China.

For me, it's not about shifting data out of naivety that companies/users aren't being spied on everywhere. Instead it's about shifting data into a legal domain in which you hope to hold someone to account for intrusive spying.

But when I come across an article like this one, and recall my youthful naivety and enthusiasm, I do worry if I haven't perhaps lost something more important.

Meanwhile my brother is shouting at me like a drill sergeant and through a combination of naivety and adrenaline I make it through my first 30 second sprint without too much difficulty. At this point my legs are burning quite a bit and I'm bright red with exertion, but otherwise ok.

I'd challenge you to point to anyone doing a tech startup who has lost a limb due to an IED. A start-up may very well change a person more than spending the same time at a job would, but to compare it to going through war shows an incredible amount of naivety about how horrible war actually is.

This is misty-eyed naivety. In a completely deregulated free market, it is even more in the hospitals' interest to form a price-fixing cartel.

| when I come across an article like this one, and recall my youthful naivety and enthusiasm, I do worry if I haven't perhaps lost something more important. A very skilled young carpenter spends 8 hours making a table, which is a perfectly sound and functional, and is proud of his work.

Such transparency, even a sense of naivety is quite rare in the business world, where spindoctors will twist words until they have a meaning far removed from what I would normally get out of them.

Perhaps they did know the history, and they thought they would be protected by quality checks embedded in the contract, but that's just more naivety. Contracts don't have much power in that environment, particularly when your project is already falling way behind schedule.

Offering different prices to different customers is playing with fire This is a falsehood believed by engineers for nebulous reasons largely founded in naivety about business. Businesses routinely offer the same service at multiple price points.

In this hyper-specialized world, where we basically look to others to do the research and summarize for us, motives are extremely relevant and it is the height of naivety to pretend otherwise.

> A well-written method doesn't need explanation, because it obviously couldn't have been written any other way I don't think I have anything nice I can say here, other than this smacks of the hopeless naivety

In a world dominated by social media and ubiquitous "Like" counters, for someone to brush off a Kudos count as "an otherwise meaningless number" is either an incredible display of naivety or straight-up ********.

To me, this speaks volumes about the brilliant naivety of that era, and I mean naivety in the most positive way possible: an uncurbed enthousiasm where you dont see all the implications and problems on your path, but just execute. Did they think about the fact that 8-track records would be outdated by the time the Voyager would reach a destination where alien life would be possible?

A viewer can destroy code as over or under engineered, over or under built, over or under abstracted, over or under object-oriented, over or under functional, and on forever, and anyone who thinks there is an actual right way in any reasonably complex system is demonstrating profound naivety. The one thing that I will disagree with in the submission is the notion that this is a new or increasing pattern.

This kind of naivety makes not only for fruitless engagement across the theistic/atheistic boundaries, but for increasing hostility and social disintegration. When I read Dawkins and those that find his simplistic reductions of religion intellectually appealing, I'm not offended as a believer, I'm not threatened intellectually, but I am discouraged about the future of community.

Naivety definitions

noun

lack of sophistication or worldliness

See also: naivete naiveness