inexperience : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: inexperience	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inexperience n 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" Synonym(s): inexperience, rawness Antonym(s): experience
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inexperience \In`expe"rience\, n. [L. inexperientia, cf. F. inexp[82]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.