experience
a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.
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.
knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience.
Philosophy. the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.
to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea.
to learn by experience.
Idioms about experience
experience religion, to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God.
Origin of experience
1Other words for experience
Other words from experience
- ex·pe·ri·ence·a·ble, adjective
- ex·pe·ri·ence·less, adjective
- post·ex·pe·ri·ence, adjective
- pre·ex·pe·ri·ence, noun, verb (used with object), pre·ex·pe·ri·enced, pre·ex·pe·ri·enc·ing.
- re·ex·pe·ri·ence, verb, re·ex·pe·ri·enced, re·ex·pe·ri·enc·ing.
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British Dictionary definitions for experience
/ (ɪkˈspɪərɪəns) /
direct personal participation or observation; actual knowledge or contact: experience of prison life
a particular incident, feeling, etc, that a person has undergone: an experience to remember
accumulated knowledge, esp of practical matters: a man of experience
the totality of characteristics, both past and present, that make up the particular quality of a person, place, or people
the impact made on an individual by the culture of a people, nation, etc: the American experience
philosophy
the content of a perception regarded as independent of whether the apparent object actually exists: Compare sense datum
the faculty by which a person acquires knowledge of contingent facts about the world, as contrasted with reason
the totality of a person's perceptions, feelings, and memories
to participate in or undergo
to be emotionally or aesthetically moved by; feel: to experience beauty
Origin of experience
1Derived forms of experience
- experienceable, adjective
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