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[syn: inexperience, rawness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
inexperience
n 1: 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]