nonspecialist

adj

1. (not-comparable)Not specialist in nature; not exhibiting or requiring specialisation.

noun

1. A person who is not a specialist in a given field

   “This engineering task is too difficult for nonspecialists.”

   “"Books," to us, should have 150 to 1500 published pages, almost never need color, be typesettable in house, not require fold-out maps, be predominately ^([sic]) in English, and be titleable such that a nonspecialist could recommend it to a specialist.”