rawness

Noun

• 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
    

• a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)
  • the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness
    
  • after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on
    

• the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect
  • the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research
    
  • the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable
    

• a chilly dampness
  • the rawness of the midnight air
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  inexperience , tenderness , soreness , incompleteness
• Antonyms: 
  experience , completeness