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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Obsolete form of inexperience.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To undo the act of experiencing something; to erase the memory of having experienced something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English experience English unexperience From un- (“lack of”) + experience (noun).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h2éntsder. Proto-Germanic *anda- Proto-West Germanic *anda- Old English and- Old English on- Middle English on- English un- English experience English unexperience From un- (“inverse of”) + experience (verb).
