inexperience Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience
    rawness.
    • procedural inexperience created difficulties
    • their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops

WordNet

In`ex*pe"ri*ence noun
Etymology
L. inexperientia, cf. F. inexpérience. See In- not, and Experience.
Definitions
  1. Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth.
    Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience. Dryden.
    Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Addison.

Webster 1913