'Inexperience' definitions:
Definition of 'inexperience'
(from WordNet)
noun
Lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience; "procedural inexperience created difficulties"; "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops" [syn: inexperience, rawness] [ant: experience]
Definition of 'Inexperience'
From: GCIDE
- Inexperience \In`ex*pe"ri*ence\, n. [L. inexperientia, cf. F. inexp['e]rience. See In- not, and Experience.] Absence or lack of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth. [1913 Webster]
- Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inexperience'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agnosticism,
- amateurishness,
- amateurism,
- blankmindedness,
- callowness,
- dewiness,
- disaccustomedness,
- empty-headedness,
- freshness,
- greenhornism,
- greenness,
- hiatus of learning,
- ignorance,
- ignorantism,
- ignorantness,
- immaturity,
- inanity,
- infancy,
- innocence,
- juiciness,
- juniority,
- know-nothingism,
- knowledge-gap,
- lack of information,
- minority,
- naivete,
- naivety,
- nescience,
- newness to,
- nonage,
- obscurantism,
- rawness,
- sappiness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- tabula rasa,
- unaccustomedness,
- unacquaintance,
- unacquaintedness,
- unconversance,
- undevelopment,
- unexperiencedness,
- unfamiliarity,
- unfledgedness,
- unhabituatedness,
- unintelligence,
- unknowing,
- unknowingness,
- unpracticedness,
- unprofessionalism,
- unprofessionalness,
- unripeness,
- unsophistication,
- unwontedness,
- vacuity,
- vacuousness,
- verdancy