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. Peter Ueda:

    Sexual inexperience has become a national concern in Japan, but previous reports did not examine the trend across different age groups and socioeconomic backgrounds.

  2. Draymond Green:

    We won a championship my third year, the majority of us were going into that playoffs 15 to 20 playoff games in our career and we were able it win a championship. So I don’t view the inexperience as a problem.

  3. William J. H. Boetcker:

    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.

  4. Terry Josephson:

    Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

  5. Claire McCaskill:

    I feel like Ronald Reagan, I don't want to hold Ronald Reagan youth and inexperience against Ronald Reagan, ronald Reagan may be Ronald Reagan, but I'm a Mizzou-educated lawyer and I can keep up.

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