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| Main Entry: | inexperience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of experience |
| Synonyms: | greenness, ignorance, imperfection, inexpertness, rawness, babyishness, callowness, childish behavior, childishness, incompleteness, infantilism, puerility |
| Main Entry: | disability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage, restriction |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailment, defect, detriment, disqualification, drawback, inability, incapacity, infirmity, injury, lack, weakness, impairment, incompetency, inexperience, invalidity, unfitness |
| Notes: | debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something |
| Antonyms: | advantage, fitness, strength |
| Main Entry: | freshness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | newness |
| Synonyms: | bloom, brightness, clearness, dew, glow, novelty, originality, shine, sparkle, vigor, youth, callowness, cleanness, dewiness, greenness, inexperience, innovativeness, inventiveness, rawness, viridity |
| Antonyms: | oldness, staleness |
| Main Entry: | naiveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence, gullibility |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candor, frankness, simplicity, callowness, childishness, credulity, guilelessness, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness |
| Antonyms: | experience, skepticism, sophistication, leeriness |
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, bloom, boyhood, childhood, ignorance, immaturity, innocence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days*, awkward age, girlhood, greenness, inexperience, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | maturity, adulthood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incompetence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of ability |
| Synonyms: | inability, inadequacy, ineptitude, inexperience |
| Main Entry: | naïveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candor, frankness, simplicity, callowness, childishness, credulity, guilelessness, gullibility, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness |
| Main Entry: | born yesterday |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new |
| Synonyms: | childlike, green, gullible, innocent, unworldly, inexperience, naïve, wet behind the ears |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmlessness, naiveté |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, frankness, freshness, ignorance, lack, purity, simplicity, sincerity, virtue, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, guilelessness, gullibility, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, nescience, plainness, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness |
| Antonyms: | experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness |
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