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Oct 21, 2016 09:31
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Italian term
ingenuità
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Commettono un reato gravissimo non si capisce bene se nell'inconsapevolezza o, peggio, ingenuità non solo della catena gerarchica del Viminale (l'allora questore di ....
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | Ingenuousness, innocence, naivety, simple-mindedness, candour |
Simona La Vecchia
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| 3 | Ignorance |
Ivana UK
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Proposed translations
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Simona La Vecchia
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Simona La Vecchia
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Ingenuousness, innocence, naivety, simple-mindedness, candour
As per La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera dictionaries
Reference:
http://dizionari.repubblica.it/Italiano-Inglese/I/ingenuita.php
http://dizionari.corriere.it/dizionario_inglese/Italiano/I/ingenuita.shtml
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writeaway
: which one of these do you recommend? this is more of a reference than an answer imo.
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I think ingenuousness is the most appropriate in a formal context. It depends also if the sentence has a negative nuance.
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2 days 15 hrs
Ignorance
I think ignorance fits best here.
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