I expect the naiveness from the college kids, but you adults who have been voting for awhile should know better!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton adviser makes superdelegate pitch] Reference

Both naiveness and naivete are both nouns and can be used in this instance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Expected To Lose Big In Today's West Virginia Primary] Reference

I cannot find the words to express my amazement at people's vanity and naiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Year honours: Business as usual despite 'big society' call from Cameron] Reference

She's turning it into a race about Kindergarten essays and her main rivals 'naiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Clinton: The Press Ignores Hillary's Experience] Reference

You are trying to comfort me for the naiveness with which you disagreed with me — eh?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

It is irresponsible and shows your naiveness (sp?) and inexperience with dealing with other people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton: We Will "Totally Obliterate" Iran If They Attack Israel] Reference

Everyone is so focused on Sarah Palin we seem to forget the inexperience and naiveness of someone who may BE OUR PRESIDENT.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Sarah Palin ready for Prime-Time?] Reference

One needs to read MOST of Issac Asimov's books to appreciate the social eccentricities and naiveness that show in his works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foundation: The Movie] Reference

Her wide saucer eyes just make her discoveries all that much more sweet and really re-emphasize the innocence and naiveness she brings to Death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death in Charge (2008)] Reference

CONSTAND VILJOEN, 60, a retired general and widely respected ex-commander of the South African armed forces, was accused of naiveness when he created the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

As this strategy unfolds, Iranians will pay in lost independence or in blood for the naiveness of its secularized youth and for the mistake the mullahs made in trusting Mousavi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iran Falls to US PSYOPS] Reference

Is it sheer naiveness or the practical point of view, I wonder?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard] Reference

"It was naiveness on our part," Mumtaz said after Thursday night's meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [ajc.com - News] Reference

You are trying to comfort me for the naiveness with which you disagreed with me -- eh?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

And the biggest mockery has been the naiveness maintained by the Government of Karnataka.    From Wordnik.com.  [rediff.com] Reference

However the naiveness and fragility of Jules attracts the amoral Catherine and she marries him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Listal promoted] Reference

"You respect her very much, don't you?" she added, quite unconscious of the naiveness of the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

This journal was also a gentle reminder of my optimism, naiveness, and commitment to my new baby at the age of 25.    From Wordnik.com.  [kidding around] Reference

In previous episodes, we saw Kei Enomoto's superficial "guys who look good only" policy, among other displays of naiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

We have moved on, and so you must expect to meet here a certain naiveness of contrivance and simplicity of aim appertaining to the remote epoch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within the Tides] Reference

Confusion and lies are their tools to advance their plans of domination, and they are counting on your gullibility and naiveness to do just that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Ice Creations] Reference

It appeared, however, that Jim was clever enough to be quietly appreciative of his wit, while, on the other hand, he amused him by his naiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Jim] Reference

In the unreserved and instant sharing of all thoughts, all impressions, all sensations, we see the naiveness of a children's foolhardy adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arrow of Gold] Reference

It appeared, how-ever, that Jim was clever enough to be quietly appreciative of his wit, while, on the other hand, he amused him by his naiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Jim] Reference

Were I to advance the plea of youth in excuse of the naiveness to be found in these pages, he would be likely to say "Bosh!" in a column and a half of fierce print.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Reminiscences] Reference

It was all greed of the financial industry fueled and fanned by greed of the real estate industry and the keep-up-with-the-other-Yuppies attitude, as well as some naiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

“You respect her very much, don’t you?” she added, quite unconscious of the naiveness of the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

In the unreserved and instant sharing of all thoughts, all impressions, all sensations, we see the naiveness of a children’s foolhardy adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arrow of Gold] Reference

Your naiveness is adorable yet scary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Expected To Lose Big In Today's West Virginia Primary] Reference

That naiveness is what leads to that honesty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Robert Logan, December 28, 1990. Interview M-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

I will not respond to such political naiveness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

A certain amount of naiveness is unavoidable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Reminiscences] Reference

C. naiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drudge Retort] Reference

That's naiveté, btw, not naiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Expected To Lose Big In Today's West Virginia Primary] Reference