What does inexperience mean?

Definitions for inexperience
ˌɪn ɪkˈspɪər i ənsin·ex·pe·ri·ence

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inexperience, rawnessnoun

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. inexperiencenoun

    A lack of experience

    I failed to get the job due to inexperience.

  2. Etymology: From inexpérience, from inexperientia.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Inexperiencenoun

    Want of experimental knowledge; want of experience.

    Etymology: inexperience, Fr. in and experience.

    Thy words at random argue thine inexperience. John Milton.

    Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Addison.

ChatGPT

  1. inexperience

    Inexperience refers to lack of knowledge or practice in a specific area, skill, or field due to having not done or encountered it before. It implies a lack of familiarity, awareness, or understanding usually gained through training or time spent doing certain tasks or activities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inexperiencenoun

    absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth

  2. Etymology: [L. inexperientia, cf. F. inexprience. See In- not, and Experience.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Inexperience

    in-eks-pē′ri-ens, n. want of experience.—adj. Inexpē′rienced, not having experience: unskilled or unpractised.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inexperience in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inexperience in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of inexperience in a Sentence

  1. Nancy Pelosi:

    We weren't going to go because we had a report from Afghanistan that the President outing our trip had made the scene on the ground much more dangerous because it's just a signal to the bad actors, house Speaker Nancy Pelosi never give advance notice of going into a battle area. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just never do. Perhaps the President's inexperience didn't help him understand that protocol. The people around him, though, should have known that, because that's very dangerous.

  2. Terry Josephson:

    Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

  3. Van Gundy:

    Running back on defense has nothing to do with youth and inexperience. Getting down and competing defensively has nothing to do with youth and inexperience. Blocking people out, nothing to do with youth and inexperience. Getting beaten on a cut, nothing to do with youth and inexperience, i don't think, tonight, our lack of experience had anything to do with the result. Nothing.

  4. Ronald Reagan:

    I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

  5. Walt Whitman:

    In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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