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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience;
- Example: "procedural inexperience created difficulties"
- Example: "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops"
[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]