What does inexperience mean?
Definitions for inexperience
ˌɪn ɪkˈspɪər i ənsin·ex·pe·ri·ence
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Princeton's WordNet
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
inexperiencenoun
A lack of experience
I failed to get the job due to inexperience.
Etymology: From inexpérience, from inexperientia.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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
Inexperiencenoun
absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth
Etymology: [L. inexperientia, cf. F. inexprience. See In- not, and Experience.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Inexperience
in-eks-pē′ri-ens, n. want of experience.—adj. Inexpē′rienced, not having experience: unskilled or unpractised.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of inexperience in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of inexperience in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of inexperience in a Sentence
Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
It is undeniable that some in the past, out of irresponsibility, disbelief, lack of training, inexperience, or spiritual and human short-sightedness, treated many cases without the seriousness and promptness that was due, that must never happen again.
Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.
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.
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