inexperience
noun/ˌɪnɪkˈspɪəriəns/
/ˌɪnɪkˈspɪriəns/
[uncountable]- lack of knowledge and experience
- His mistake was due to youth and inexperience.
Extra Examples- He put his mistakes down to (= believed they were caused by ) his inexperience.
- Her inexperience in politics did not show as she debated with the other candidates.
- He showed his inexperience by asking lots of trivial questions.
- The team's defensive errors were down to (= a result of ) their inexperience.
- They made mistakes because of their inexperience.
- inexperience in teaching
- Despite her relative inexperience, she has shown herself to be a highly competent manager.
- I'm afraid that in this instance the player's inexperience showed.
- The debate was only marred by the inexperience of the main speakers.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- relative
- youthful
- sexual
- …
- show
- be down to
- put something down to
- …
- show
- because of inexperience
- through inexperience
- inexperience in
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French inexpérience, from late Latin inexperientia, from in- (expressing negation) + experientia ‘experience’.
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