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ex⋅pe⋅ri⋅ence
[ik-speer-ee-uh
ns]
noun, verb, -enced, -enc⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience. |
| 2. | the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience. |
| 3. | the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time: to learn from experience; the range of human experience. |
| 4. | knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience. |
| 5. | Philosophy. the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered. |
–verb (used with object)
—Idiom| 6. | to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea. |
| 7. | to learn by experience. |
| 8. | experience religion, to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God. |
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L experientia, equiv. to experient- (s. of experiēns, ptp. of experīrī to try, test; see ex- 1 , peril ) + -ia n. suffix; see -ence
1350–1400; ME < L experientia, equiv. to experient- (s. of experiēns, ptp. of experīrī to try, test; see ex- 1 , peril ) + -ia n. suffix; see -ence

Related forms:
ex⋅pe⋅ri⋅ence⋅a⋅ble, adjective
ex⋅pe⋅ri⋅ence⋅less, adjective
Synonyms:
6. encounter, know, endure, suffer. Experience, undergo refer to encountering situations, conditions, etc., in life, or to having certain sensations or feelings. Experience implies being affected by what one meets with: to experience a change of heart, bitter disappointment. Undergo usually refers to the bearing or enduring of something hard, difficult, disagreeable, or dangerous: to undergo severe hardships, an operation.
6. encounter, know, endure, suffer. Experience, undergo refer to encountering situations, conditions, etc., in life, or to having certain sensations or feelings. Experience implies being affected by what one meets with: to experience a change of heart, bitter disappointment. Undergo usually refers to the bearing or enduring of something hard, difficult, disagreeable, or dangerous: to undergo severe hardships, an operation.
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Experience
Ex*pe"ri*ence\, n. [F. exp['e]rience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, ?entis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of pertus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert.]1. Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.] She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. --Spenser. 2. 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. "Guided by other's experiences." --Shak. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. --P. Henry To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. --Coleridge. When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. --Holland. Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it. --Sharp. 3. 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; as, a king without experience of war. Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience. --Locke. Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment. --Sir J. Herschel.
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Language Translation for : experience
Spanish:
experiencia,
German:
die Erfahrung,
Japanese:
経験
experience
1377, from O.Fr. experience, from L. experientia "knowledge gained by repeated trials," from experientem (nom. experiens), prp. of experiri "to try, test," from ex- "out of" + peritus "experienced, tested." The v. (1533) first meant "to test, try;" sense of "feel, undergo" first recorded 1588.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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experience ex·pe·ri·ence (ĭk-spēr'ē-əns)
n.
The feeling of emotions and sensations as opposed to thinking; involvement in what is happening rather than abstract reflection on an event.
ex·pe'ri·ence v.
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