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INEXPERIENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience
Example:
their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops
Synonyms:
inexperience; rawness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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:
I was still painfully conscious of my youth, for nobody stood in any awe of me at all: the chambermaid being utterly indifferent to my opinions on any subject, and the waiter being familiar with me, and offering advice to my inexperience.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfilment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes, he answered; and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But young men didn't—at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't—drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
