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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Lack of experience.
  • noun Lack of the knowledge gained from experience.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of experience, or of knowledge gained by experience: as, the inexperience of youth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Absence or lack of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A lack of experience

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience

Etymologies

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From French inexpérience, from Late Latin inexperientia.

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