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inexperience|ɪnɛkˈspɪərɪəns| [a. F. inexpérience (1460 in Godef. Compl.), ad. late L. inexperientia (Tertull.), f. in- (in-3) + experientia experience.] Want of experience; the condition of not having been practically conversant with some department of study or work, or with affairs generally; the want of adequate knowledge or skill resulting from this.
1598Florio, Inesperientia, inexperience, vnskilfulnes, vnacquaintance. 1609Daniel Civ. Wars Wks. (1717) 207 The Inexperience of his Years Made him less skill'd in what was to be done. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 51 Those Failings which are incident to Youth and Inexperience. 1769Junius Lett. xxxv. 156 We..are ready to allow for your inexperience. 1827Lytton Pelham xlii, An authority to which nothing but the inexperience of the young could accede. |