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say it: in-ik-SPIR-ee-uhns
inexperience is a noun meaning "lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience". It is pronounced /ˌɪnɪkˈspɪɹiəns/ — in-ik-SPIR-ee-uhns. It carries one recorded sense.
lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience
“procedural inexperience created difficulties”
“their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inexperience come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.