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inexperience

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A lack of experience.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • I failed to get the job due to inexperience.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • procedural inexperience created difficulties
  • their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: rawness

Antonyms: experience

Broader terms: ignorance

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French inexpérience, from Late Latin inexperientia.

Across languages

Translations

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: недасве́дчанасць (njedasvjédčanascʹ) — lack of experience
  • Bulgarian: нео́питност (neópitnost) — lack of experience
  • Czech: nezkušenost — lack of experience
  • Dutch: onervarenheid — lack of experience
  • Finnish: kokemattomuus — lack of experience
  • Finnish: kokemuksen puute — lack of experience
  • French: inexpérience — lack of experience
  • Galician: inexperiencia — lack of experience
  • German: Unerfahrenheit — lack of experience
  • Greek: απειρία (apeiría) — lack of experience
  • Ancient Greek: ἀπειρία (apeiría) — lack of experience
  • Hindi: अनुभवहीनता (anubhvahīntā) — lack of experience
  • Hungarian: tapasztalatlanság — lack of experience
  • Hungarian: gyakorlatlanság — lack of experience
  • Hungarian: járatlanság — lack of experience
  • Irish: ainchleachtadh — lack of experience
  • Irish: aineolas — lack of experience
  • Irish: easpa taithí — lack of experience
  • Irish: easpa cleachtaidh — lack of experience
  • Irish: neamhchleachtadh — lack of experience
  • Irish: neamhoilteacht — lack of experience
  • Irish: neamhthaithí — lack of experience
  • Irish: núíosacht — lack of experience
  • Latin: imperītia — lack of experience
  • Macedonian: неискуство (neiskustvo) — lack of experience
  • Māori: ihupiro — lack of experience
  • Māori: ihupuku — lack of experience
  • Polish: brak doświadczenia — lack of experience
  • Russian: нео́пытность (neópytnostʹ) — lack of experience
  • Slovak: neskúsenosť — lack of experience
  • Slovene: neizkušenost — lack of experience
  • Spanish: inexperiencia — lack of experience
  • Spanish: bisoñez — lack of experience
  • Spanish: impericia — lack of experience
  • Swedish: oerfarenhet — lack of experience
  • Turkish: deneyimsizlik — lack of experience
  • Turkish: tecrübesizlik — lack of experience
  • Ukrainian: недосві́дченість (nedosvídčenistʹ) — lack of experience