inexperience

inexperience
    n 1: 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" [syn: {inexperience}, {rawness}] [ant:
         {experience}]
    

Inexperience \In`ex*pe"ri*ence\, n. [L. inexperientia, cf. F.
   inexp['e]rience. See {In-} not, and {Experience}.]
   Absence or lack of experience; lack of personal and
   experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth.
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         Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience.
                                                  --Dryden.
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         Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from
         inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
                                                  --Addison.
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57 Moby Thesaurus words for "inexperience":
      agnosticism, amateurishness, amateurism, blankmindedness,
      callowness, dewiness, disaccustomedness, empty-headedness,
      freshness, greenhornism, greenness, hiatus of learning, ignorance,
      ignorantism, ignorantness, immaturity, inanity, infancy, innocence,
      juiciness, juniority, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap,
      lack of information, minority, naivete, naivety, nescience,
      newness to, nonage, obscurantism, rawness, sappiness, simpleness,
      simplicity, tabula rasa, unaccustomedness, unacquaintance,
      unacquaintedness, unconversance, undevelopment, unexperiencedness,
      unfamiliarity, unfledgedness, unhabituatedness, unintelligence,
      unknowing, unknowingness, unpracticedness, unprofessionalism,
      unprofessionalness, unripeness, unsophistication, unwontedness,
      vacuity, vacuousness, verdancy