inexperience
- lack of experience.
- lack of knowledge, skill, or wisdom gained from experience.
Origin of inexperience
Related Words for inexperience
ignorance, imperfection, rawness, greenness, incompleteness, childishness, puerility, callowness, infantilismExamples from the Web for inexperience
Contemporary Examples of inexperience
Occasionally, his inexperience betrayed him into raw deals but, taken overall, he worked well for them.
Later, Mae complained to reporters about the “inexperience of the director,” but somehow found time to stroke her fan base.
When Hollywood Flirted with Porn: 1969, ‘Myra Breckinridge,’ ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,’ & 20th Century FoxRobert Hofler
February 1, 2014
A clearly rattled Walsh showed his inexperience as he began to answer anyway before being hushed from the bench.
He avoids the accusation of inexperience he would have faced in giving the nod to Marco Rubio.
By running now, they would risk revealing their inexperience or tying themselves in too many Tea Party knots for future audiences.
Historical Examples of inexperience
This was still an obscure question, to which, in her inexperience, she found no answer.
The DreamEmile Zola
"That's just because he's part Indian," Evadna declared, with the positiveness of youth and inexperience.
Good IndianB. M. Bower
Inexperience is a perpetual feeder of the springs of romance.
The American MindBliss Perry
"Inexperience," repeated Margaret, in serious yet buoyant tones.
Howards EndE. M. Forster
All the lives which we desire are pleasant; the choice of any others is due to inexperience.
LawsPlato
inexperience
- lack of experience or of the knowledge and understanding derived from experience
Word Origin and History for inexperience
1590s, from French inexpérience (mid-15c.), from Late Latin inexperientia, from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + experientia (see experience).