Experience

What do we mean by experience?

The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind. noun

Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill. noun

The knowledge or skill so derived. noun

An event or a series of events participated in or lived through. noun

The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group. noun

To participate in personally; undergo. transitive verb

To learn by practical trial or proof; try or prove by use, by suffering, or by enjoyment; have happen to or befall one; acquire a perception of; undergo: as, we all experience pain, sorrow, and pleasure; we experience good and evil; we often experience a change of sentiments and views, or pleasurable or painful sensations.

To practise or drill; exercise.

The state or fact of having made trial or proof, or of having acquired knowledge, wisdom, skill, etc., by actual trial or observation; also, the knowledge so acquired; personal and practical acquaintance with anything; experimental cognition or perception: as, he knows what suffering is by long experience; experience teaches even fools. noun

In philosophy, knowledge acquired through external or internal perception; also, the totality of the cognitions given by perception, taken in their connection; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered. noun

Specifically That which has been learned, suffered, or done, considered as productive of practical judgment and skill; the sum of practical wisdom taught by all the events, vicissitudes, and observations of one's life, or by any particular class or division of them. noun

An individual or particular instance of trial or observation. noun

An experiment. noun

A fixed mental impression or emotion; specifically, a guiding or controlling religious feeling, as at the time of conversion or resulting from subsequent influences. noun

Synonyms Experience, Experiment, Observation. Experience is strictly that which befalls a man, or which he goes through, while experiment is that which one actively undertakes. Observation is looking on, without necessarily having any connection with the matter: it is one thing to know of a man's goodness or of the horrors of war by observation, and quite another to know of it or them by experience. To know of a man's goodness by experiment would be to have put it to actual and intentional test. Bee practice. noun

Trial, as a test or experiment. noun

The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering. noun

An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action. noun

The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

An activity one has performed.

A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.

The knowledge thus gathered.

Trial; a test or experiment.

Words that are spelled similarly to experience:
experience, expedience, exrerience, expediency, experienced, experiences, reexperience, inexperience, experient, experiencer, unexperience, experience', experiencia, expediente.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word experience:
experiences, pain, symptoms.

Words that rhyme with experience:
inexperience.

Adjectives that are often used to describe experience:
own, personal, human, past, previous, religious, practical, long, clinical, actual, common, direct, recent, extensive, subjective, emotional, historical, considerable, prior, aesthetic, spiritual, sexual, mystical, immediate, everyday, lived, educational, bitter, wide, sensory, conscious, inner, daily, professional, traumatic, limited, christian, ordinary, valuable, painful, visual, positive, unique, hand, universal, perceptual, rich, concrete, sad, collective, pleasant, enough, successful, unpleasant, year, wonderful, shared, sufficient, colonial.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective experience:
based, centered, rating, hypothesis, whole, sampling, the, near, derived, dependent, weighted, rated, outcome, master, earnings, relationship, report, meeting, centred, type, interest, shower, driven, record, manager, induced, director.

Words that sound like experience:
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