Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Oct 25 2017
Gullibility vs. naivete
A thesaurus will probably tell you that gullibility and naivete are similar. I suppose they are. But I think of gullibility as the thing that people possess when they pass along as truth a meme/photo on social media without checking to see whether it's real. Naivete is different to me. When a reader/viewer/listener suspends belief in order to enjoy the spinning of a good yarn they have naivete. They're both traits that one chooses to possess, but the former speaks more to me of a lazy, biased choice, while the latter ssems to me a temporary opennesss to a new experience. Maybe society shapes the difference in the two words?
posted at: 11:35 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
A thesaurus will probably tell you that gullibility and naivete are similar. I suppose they are. But I think of gullibility as the thing that people possess when they pass along as truth a meme/photo on social media without checking to see whether it's real. Naivete is different to me. When a reader/viewer/listener suspends belief in order to enjoy the spinning of a good yarn they have naivete. They're both traits that one chooses to possess, but the former speaks more to me of a lazy, biased choice, while the latter ssems to me a temporary opennesss to a new experience. Maybe society shapes the difference in the two words?
posted at: 11:35 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry