inexperience

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ex=pe=ri=ence

CIDE DICTIONARY

inexperience, n. [L. inexperientia, cf. F. inexpérience. 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."  [1913 Webster]
"Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inexperience, n. lack of experience, or of the resulting knowledge or skill.

Derivative

inexperienced adj.

Etymology

F inexp{eacute}rience f. LL inexperientia (as IN-(1), EXPERIENCE)

THESAURUS

inexperience

agnosticism, amateurishness, amateurism, blankmindedness, callowness, dewiness, disaccustomedness, empty-headedness, freshness, greenhornism, greenness, hiatus of learning, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, immaturity, inanity, infancy, innocence, juiciness, juniority, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of information, minority, naivete, naivety, nescience, newness to, nonage, obscurantism, rawness, sappiness, simpleness, simplicity, tabula rasa, unaccustomedness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, unconversance, undevelopment, unexperiencedness, unfamiliarity, unfledgedness, unhabituatedness, unintelligence, unknowing, unknowingness, unpracticedness, unprofessionalism, unprofessionalness, unripeness, unsophistication, unwontedness, vacuity, vacuousness, verdancy

ROGET THESAURUS

inexperience

Unskillfulness

N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.

Ignorance

N ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance, unconsciousness, darkness, blindness, incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, unknown quantities, x, y, z, sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground, dark ages, smattering, sciolism, glimmering, dilettantism, bewilderment, incapacity, pedantry, charlatanry, charlatism, Philister, Philistine, ignorant, nescient, unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious, witless, weetless, a stranger to, unconversant, uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened, Philistine, behind the age, shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate, unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish, empty-headed, dizzy, wooly-headed, pedantic, in the dark, benighted, belated, blinded, blindfolded, hoodwinked, misinformed, au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault, at sea, caught tripping, unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived, concealed, novel, ignorantly, unawares, for anything, for aught one knows, not that one knows, Int, God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows, ignorance never settles a question, quantum animis erroris inest!, small Latin and less Greek, that unlettered small-knowing soul, there is no darkness but ignorance.