What's the difference between naivety and relief?

Naivety


Definition:

  • (n.) Naivete.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The home team's defence had been undermined by naivety and it was in evidence when Stepanov, already on a yellow card for a foul on McGeady and having been played into trouble, lunged for the ball only to be beaten to it by Keane.
  • (2) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
  • (3) The record after his release suggests there was a certain naivety about Mandela, born of tutored ignorance, the product of imprisonment and deliberate isolation.
  • (4) Some will look back at that age and see either misguided paternalism or rank naivety.
  • (5) The media tycoon’s views appear to have moved on since March this year, when he lamented the surgeon’s political naivety: Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) Read 2 bks by famous neurosurgeon Ben Carson, running for president.
  • (6) And yes, I realise I should probably have known this before I signed up, but youthful naivety meant I jumped straight in.
  • (7) He had revealed a naivety in failing to foresee how the prime minister might wield the veto in the late-night talks in Brussels.
  • (8) But, in their feminine naivety, they fail to realise that their comeuppance is on its way, their freedoms snatched by the invasion of the genuine oppressor.
  • (9) Clegg chirrups with incredible naivety, given Sats, league tables and Ofsted inspections and the already quantified 20% of children with special needs, that this is not "a sort of name-and-shame table".
  • (10) Deep down, I believe the character really has bumbled her way through a mafia career, using her naivety as protection.
  • (11) Quite apart from its apparent naivety, this is Blond all over: pushing beyond two entrenched positions, finding a third, and sounding simultaneously conservative and radical, albeit in a slightly self-conscious way.
  • (12) Part of the attraction of No Logo is Klein’s frank admission of the naivety of her quest.
  • (13) As Glastonbury virgins, they treated the world's biggest festival with the same nonchalant naivety with which they'd conducted their entire career, and with the added issues of an enormous crowd and 2007's ultra-sensitive perimeter sound limiters, it made for a distant and underwhelming experience.
  • (14) I saw no staff around to confirm whether this was the right train – and, in my naivety, I presumed my train may have been delayed leaving – as it was only eight minutes, after all.
  • (15) There's a You Got The Look with power chords chiselled out of funk licks; a How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore performed solo at the piano with all of its devastating naivety.
  • (16) Ruben Loftus-Cheek discovered that much when his bright attacking display was checked at the break with the manager citing naivety out of possession as reason enough to prompt his replacement.
  • (17) Where opponents speak of naivety, an inevitable collision with the powers that be, the Marxists speak of an historic opportunity to eradicate the politics of austerity both in and beyond Greece.
  • (18) The second definition highlights followers of a certain hipster culture, which revels in a childlike naivety; the films of Wes Anderson , the early books of Dave Eggers , and the twee indie pop of Belle and Sebastian are all mentioned.
  • (19) Maybe I can call this naivety, but I think that the right thing – truth, honour, justice – always prevails in the end,” says Masood.
  • (20) The naivety of claiming that lobbying and influencing cannot benefit students is wrong and dangerously misguided.

Relief


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.
  • (n.) Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.
  • (n.) That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort, uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay.
  • (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant.
  • (n.) The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed.
  • (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure.
  • (n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.
  • (n.) The elevations and surface undulations of a country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
  • (2) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
  • (3) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
  • (4) During the treatment phase we found a complete relief of symptoms in 6 (27%), a partial relief of symptoms in 6 (27%), and some relief of symptoms in 12 (54%) in group 2.
  • (5) Among patients in whom the neuroma had been operated on once previously (first recurrence group), 88% achieved good to excellent pain relief with the technique described in this article.
  • (6) The improvement in the two groups of patients was statistically comparable to the relief of pain and the over-all restoration of function.
  • (7) All four active treatment groups also experienced significantly more relief of pelvic-abdominal pain compared with placebo: piroxicam 40 mg for two days followed by three days of 20 mg (p = 0.002), piroxicam 40 mg for one day followed by four days of 20 mg (p = 0.023), piroxicam 20 mg for five days (p = 0.012), and ibuprofen (p = 0.011).
  • (8) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
  • (9) The plasma zinc level was significantly lower at the time of onset of zinc deficiency than in normal subjects, before the procedure of TPN, or at the time of symptomatic relief achieved by administration of zinc.
  • (10) BPV provides long-term relief of pulmonary valvular obstruction in the majority of patients.
  • (11) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
  • (12) An integrated approach to the surgical management of diffuse subaortic stenosis has been designed to provide adequate relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction whatever the anatomical features encountered at operation.
  • (13) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
  • (14) Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is recognized as an effective therapeutic procedure for nonsurgical relief of critical coronary stenosis.
  • (15) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
  • (16) Hence, they self-administer opioids for pain relief with PCA according to their expectations.
  • (17) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
  • (18) Its complete removal results in dramatic relief of proptosis.
  • (19) Deficiency in polyunsaturated fatty acids was not found in erythrocyte membranes under conditions of the relief-diet therapy course used.
  • (20) From this information, it would appear that it is possible that the mechanism for the prolonged effect of acupuncture in treating chronic pain is that the repeated activation of the physiological systems by which acupuncture inhibits pain, by the repeated acupuncture treatments, trains the body to continue this activity and thereby maintains the pain relief for a period of time after the last treatment.