Novice vs. Novitiate — What's the Difference?

A novice is a person who has entered a religious order and is under probation, before taking vows. By extension, the term is used informally for a person or animal new to a particular field of endeavour.

The novitiate, also called the noviciate, is the period of training and preparation that a Christian novice (or prospective) monastic, apostolic, or member of a religious order undergoes prior to taking vows in order to discern whether they are called to vowed religious life. It often includes times of intense study, prayer, living in community, studying the vowed life, deepening one's relationship with God, and deepening one's self-awareness.

A person new to and inexperienced in a job or situation

The period of being a novice.

A person who has entered a religious order and is under probation, before taking vows.

A place where novices live.

A person new to a field or activity; a beginner.

See novice.

A person who has entered a religious order but has not yet taken final vows. Also called novitiate.

A novice.

A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.

The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training.

(religion) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.

The place where a novice lives and studies.

One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

The state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments.

One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.

The time of probation in a religious house before taking the vows.

One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.

One who is going through a novitiate, or period of probation; a novice.

Like a novice; becoming a novice.

The place where novices live or are trained.

Someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows

The period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)

Someone new to a field or activity

Someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows