Naive vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?
naive | ingenuity |
Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
(of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
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As an adjective naive
is .As a noun ingenuity is
the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.naive
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*Adjective
(en adjective)- Surely you're not naive enough to believe adverts!
- I've always liked the naive way in which he ignores all the background detail.
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* naively * naivete * naivety * naivenessAnagrams
* ----ingenuity
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Noun
(en-noun)- The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
- Poverty is the mother of ingenuity .
- Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
- And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie , and ever to speake truth and what I think.