| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of experience |
| Synonyms: | babyishness, callowness, childish behavior, childishness, greenness, ignorance, imperfection, incompleteness, inexpertness, infantilism, puerility, rawness |
| Main Entry: | freshness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | newness |
| Synonyms: | bloom, brightness, callowness, cleanness, clearness, dew, dewiness, glow, greenness, inexperience, innovativeness, inventiveness, novelty, originality, rawness, shine, sparkle, vigor, viridity, youth |
| Antonyms: | oldness, staleness |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmlessness, naiveté |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, frankness, freshness, guilelessness, gullibility, ignorance, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, lack, nescience, plainness, purity, simplicity, sincerity, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | naiveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence, gullibility |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
| Antonyms: | experience, leeriness, skepticism, sophistication |
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | adulthood, maturity |
| Main Entry: | incompetence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of ability |
| Synonyms: | inability, inadequacy, ineptitude, inexperience |
| Notes: | incompetence is unacceptable levels of performance; incompetency is insanity or inability to stand trial or testify |
| Main Entry: | naïveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, gullibility, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | born yesterday |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new |
| Synonyms: | childlike, green, gullible, inexperience, innocent, naïve, unworldly, wet behind the ears |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, juvenility, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |