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marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenagers naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances" (同)naif

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(若き・経験不足から)〈人・言葉などが〉無邪気な,天真らんまんな,世間知らずな / 人を信じやすい,だまされやすい　日本語で「繊細な」という意味で「ナイーブ」使われることがありますが、英語では「ナイーブ」にそのようなニュアンスは含まれません。

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Naivety (or naïvety, naïveté, etc.), is the state of being naive—having or showing a lack of experience, understanding or sophistication, often in a context where one neglects pragmatism in favor of moral idealism. One who is naive may be called a naif.

Etymology

In early use, the word "naive" meant natural or innocent, and did not connote ineptitude. As a French word, it is spelled naïve or naïf. (French adjectives have grammatical gender; naïf is used with masculine nouns.) The dots above the i are a diaeresis (see also Ï). As an unitalicized English word, “naive” is now the more usual spelling,^[1] although “naïve” is unidiomatic rather than incorrect; “naïf” often represents the French masculine, but has a secondary meaning as an artistic style. “Naive” is now normally pronounced as two syllables, with the stress on the second, in the French manner.

The noun form can be written naivety, naïvety, naïveté, naïvete, or naiveté.

Culture

The naif appears as a cultural type in two main forms. On the one hand, there is 'the satirical naïf, such as Candide'.^[2] Northrop Frye suggested we might call it 'the ingenu form, after Voltaire's dialogue of that name. Here an outsider...grants none of the premises which make the absurdities of society look logical to those accustomed to them',^[3] and serves essentially as a prism to carry the satirical message. Baudrillard indeed, drawing on his Situationist roots, sought to position himself as ingenu in everyday life: 'I play the role of the Danube peasant: someone who knows nothing but suspects something is wrong...I like being in the position of the primitive...playing naïve '.^[4]

On the other hand, there is the artistic 'naïf - all responsiveness and seeming availability'.^[5] Here 'the naïf offers himself as being in process of formation, in search of values and models...always about to adopt some traditional "mature" temperament'^[6] - in a perpetual adolescent moratorium. Such instances of 'the naïf as a cultural image...offered themselves as essentially responsive to others and open to every invitation...established their identity in indeterminacy'.^[7]

During the 1960s, 'the naifs turned toward mysticism and Eastern religions',^[8] feeding into the Hippie movement. 'Hippie culture, bastard of the beat generation out of pop, was much like a folk culture - oral, naive, communal, its aphorisms ("Make love, not war", "turn on, tune in, drop out") intuited, not rationalized'.^[9] Its druggie protagonists 'had a childlike wonder that we could produce such weirdness from ourselves...assumed with the bravado of youth that we'd make it back to tell of what we saw'.^[10]

Notes

^ OED, “naïve” and “naïf” and quotes.
^ Mark Perrino, The Poetics of Mockery (1995) p. 54
^ Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism (Princeton 1973) p. 232
^ Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art (2005) p. 66-7
^ Martin Green, Children of the Sun (London 1977) p. 238
^ Green, p. 35
^ Green, p. 35
^ Leora Lev, Enter at Your Own Risk (2006) p. 50
^ Ellen Willis, "Dylan" in Craig McGregor ed., Bob Dylan: A Retrospective (1975) p. 148
^ Jenni Diski, The Sixties (London 2009) p. 40-2

English Journal

Biosimilars - terms of use.

Declerck P1, Mellstedt H2, Danese S3.
Current medical research and opinion.Curr Med Res Opin.2015 Dec;31(12):2325-30. doi: 10.1185/03007995.2015.1098601. Epub 2015 Oct 27.
The impending expiry of the patent on a number of leading biologic drugs has led to a surge in the development of 'biosimilar' or 'follow-on' products. However, in contrast to generic small-molecule medicines, biosimilars are not identical to their reference products. The differences and complexitie
PMID 26397731

T-lymphocyte populations following a period of high volume training in female soccer players.

Brown FF1, Bigley AB2, Ross JC2, LaVoy EC2, Simpson RJ2, Galloway SD2.
Physiology & behavior.Physiol Behav.2015 Dec 1;152(Pt A):175-81. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.09.027. Epub 2015 Sep 30.
PURPOSE: To investigate the T-lymphocyte response to a period of increased training volume in trained females compared to habitual activity in female controls.METHODS: Thirteen trained female (19.8±1.9yrs) soccer players were monitored during a two-week long high volume training period (increased b
PMID 26432452

Policy advice: Irked by naivety about policymaking.

Oliver K1, Wellstead A2, Cairney P3.
Nature.Nature.2015 Nov 12;527(7577):165. doi: 10.1038/527165e.
PMID 26560290

Japanese Journal

1930年代の独立美術協会における「素朴」について : ルソー風、地方色、生活の問題を中心に

北方人文研究 (7), 1-23, 2014-03
NAID 120005411147

素朴絵 : その系譜と魅力 (特集素朴絵の魅力 : 素朴表現の多様性と特質)

聚美 (9), 9-29, 2013
NAID 40019821071

20世紀初頭におけるコローの人物画の受容について

成城美学美術史 (14), 41-61, 2008-03
NAID 110006657817

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