unsophistication

Synonyms for unsophistication

noun harmlessness, naiveté

1620s, "unmixed," from un- (1) "not" + sophisticated. Meaning "ingenuous, natural, inexperienced" is recorded from 1660s.

But at the obvious she could laugh like any child of unsophistication.

The innocence and unsophistication of younger ideals had gone.

Her unsophistication, hitherto a deficiency, began to take on a certain charm.

He thought her young; and was charmed by what he considered her innocence and unsophistication.

In 1803 this country was still in the palmy state of unsophistication.

Margaret smiled at the unsophistication which was not familiar with the conventional white lie.

Unsophistication was a thing to talk of; but he had not known how it really struck one until he came here.

Those clear eyes invest him with a look of innocence and unsophistication.

If there was a touch of appreciation left in him for the bloom and unsophistication which is the charm of youth, it rekindled now.

Besides, I exhausted the subject of unsophistication in short frocks when I first had the pleasure of meeting you, four years ago.