inexperience
- noun
- /ˌɪnɪkˈspɪərəns/
- The team's inexperience showed as they struggled to complete the project on time.
- youth and inexperience
- relative inexperience
- lack of inexperience
One of the biggest mistakes we make is that we confuse inexperience with being unqualified.
- One of the biggest mistakes we make is that we confuse inexperience with being unqualified.
- But my forget about individuals, I think my immediate reaction is that there's a lot of inexperience in centre back areas.
- I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.
- They're based on some some things that we encounter inexperience and then draw from from them.
- So I I think part of it is inexperience.
- He's just saying whatever you're going to know, you're going to encounter inexperience as a phenomena, right?
- Those are not empirical sciences, but they are ultimately of things that are met with inexperience.
- So I'm going to give you a, a, something in the gap that inexperience to convince successful people that you can do it.
- OK, three people have used their free hit and that that to me and Reeve is inexperience.
- But so clearly, and you'll know this from your inexperience in many years of helping people, that it just doesn't work.
Examples
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And there are even more trying to take advantage of my youth and inexperience.
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In higher education, we generally believe that our students' inexperience with a discipline precludes their substantive engagement with it.
Academic text (2006) -
But what if, instead, we saw students' inexperience as an opportunity?
Academic text (2006) -
Maybe some of it came from my inexperience, but my desire to listen and hear people.
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But along with her poor English, her inexperience was something the mothers seemed willing to put up with.
Fiction book (1992) -
The reality of student teaching is, in fact, a signal of the realm of inexperience.
Academic text (1993) -
I am not going to exploit my opponent's youth and inexperience.
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However deep my inexperience runs, I truly believe Judge Kipler will save me from myself.
Fiction book (1995) -
The process posed unique challenges, given physicians' and unions' inexperience with each other.
Academic text (2001) -
Caleb suspected that his own failure in life could be ascribed to his inexperience.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
Not knowing about something or how it works
A lack of skill that makes someone do tasks badly
Lack of experience or common sense that makes someone trust others easily
Lack of skill that makes someone do things badly
A lack of knowledge or experience with something
Lack of experience or skill
Lack of ability to do a task or job well
A state of not being good at doing something
A lack of experience and knowledge of the wider world that makes a person seem simple
Antonyms
How Experienced
Surface Forms
Morphology
inexperience = experience (transparent) = in + experience
This is a standard negative noun formation meaning the absence or lack of experience.
Etymology
The word inexperience is made of the prefix in- meaning 'not' and experience meaning 'knowledge or skill you get from doing something'. So, inexperience is 'not having the knowledge or skill because you have not done something enough'.