Definition of Inexperience

1. Noun. Lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience. "Their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops"

Exact synonyms: Rawness
Generic synonyms: Ignorance
Antonyms: Experience
Derivative terms: Inexperient, Raw

Definition of Inexperience

1. n. Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth.

Definition of Inexperience

1. Noun. A lack of experience ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inexperience

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inexperience

inexpansible
inexpectable
inexpectant
inexpectation
inexpected
inexpectedly
inexpedience
inexpediences
inexpediencies
inexpediency
inexpedient
inexpediently
inexpensive
inexpensively
inexpensiveness
inexperience (current term)
inexperienced
inexperienced person
inexperiencedly
inexperiences
inexpert
inexpertise
inexpertly
inexpertness
inexpertnesses
inexperts
inexpiable
inexpiably
inexpiate
inexplainable

Literary usage of Inexperience

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment. Two great yellow caravans had halted one morning before the door and men ..."

2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment. Two great yellow caravans had halted one morning before the door and men ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"that the danger of this position was not so obvious and plain that a person of petitioner's inexperience in the use of such a wheel or of machinery ..."

4. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... fled amain to the sea and to their vessels. much more to their benevolence; their terror hitherto had been merely the result of inexperience. ..."

5. The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe (1795)
"... for you at ** present to refer the matters in debate to the judgment "of his holiness, alledging as a reason your own youth *' and inexperience. ..."

6. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1922)
"Must Not Look Up inexperience Demands Close Attention Experts Suffer Most from Bad Bounds For the beginner, it is absolutely essential that he watch the ..."

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