INEXPERIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inexperience mean? 

• INEXPERIENCE (noun)
  The noun INEXPERIENCE has 1 sense:

1. lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience

  Familiarity information: INEXPERIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEXPERIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

inexperience; rawness

Context example:

their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops

Hypernyms ("inexperience" is a kind of...):

ignorance (the lack of knowledge or education)

Antonym:

experience (the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities)

Derivation:

inexperient (lacking practical experience or training)

 Context examples 

You will allow for the doubts of youth and inexperience.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We felt our inexperience, and were unable to help ourselves.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was evidently, for all of his youth and inexperience, cock of the forecastle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Tongue-tied by inexperience and by excess of ardor, wooing unwittingly and awkwardly, Martin continued his approach by contact.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I listened to his statement, which was delivered without any presumption or affectation, and then added that his lecture had removed my prejudices against modern chemists; I expressed myself in measured terms, with the modesty and deference due from a youth to his instructor, without letting escape (inexperience in life would have made me ashamed) any of the enthusiasm which stimulated my intended labours.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To my inexperience this appeared to bring the whole matter to a conclusion, but I had underrated the foresight of those who arrange these affairs, and also the advantages which made Crawley Down so favourite a rendezvous.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your inexperience really amuses me!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

What so blind as inexperience?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His demands and your inexperience together, on a small, very small income, must have brought on distresses which would not be the LESS grievous to you, from having been entirely unknown and unthought of before.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Nor was there any way, out of her inexperience, for her to know that the cosmic feel she caught of him was that most cosmic of things, love, which with equal power drew men and women together across the world, compelled stags to kill each other in the rutting season, and drove even the elements irresistibly to unite.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)