Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inexperience"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inexperience \In`ex*pe"ri*ence\, n. [L. inexperientia, cf. F.
inexp['e]rience. See {In-} not, and {Experience}.]
Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and
experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth.
Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience.
--Dryden.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from
inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
--Addison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inexperience
n : lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding
derived from experience [ant: {experience}]
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