A French loanword (adjective, form of naïf) indicating having or showing a lack of experience, understanding or sophistication. It can also be spelled naive. The noun form can be written naivety, naïvety, naïveté, naïvete, or naiveté.Naïve may also refer to:
Naïve art, art created by untrained artists, or artists aspiring to naïve realisations
Naïve realism, a theory of perception thought to be representative of most people's understanding and method of interpretation of their perceptions
Naïve algorithm, a very simple solution to a problem that has a very high time- or memory- complexity
Naive Bayes classifier, a simple probabilistic classifier
Naive set theory, a non-axiomatic approach to set theory, in mathematics
Naïve-liberalism
Drug-naïve, a patient who has not previously used a particular drug (e.g., an opioid) during a particular course of treatment, and therefore has no tolerance; or someone who has not been exposed previously t