The Width of Railroad Tracks is based on a History that Extends Back to Roman Chariots-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This story is a âWeâve always done it that wayâ tale. It says that the standard distance between railroad rails in the U.S. is four-feet, eight-and-a-half inches.
Noun. 1. naiveness-lack of sophistication or worldliness. naivete, naivety. quality-an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; the quality of mercy is not strained--Shakespeare.
In early use, the word naive meant natural or innocent, and did not connote ineptitude. As a French adjective, it is spelled naive naÃ¯ve or. Naif naÃ¯f french adjectives have; grammatical gender naif naÃ¯f is used with masculine nouns and naive. naÃ¯ve with feminine nounsn biology, and particularly in immunology, the word naive naÃ¯ve is used to describe an (individual or) cell who did not encounter an, antigen for instance a. Pathogen in other fields of, science naive naÃ¯ve describes a person or animal who did not have a particular experience or was not subject to a. particular experiment