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Experience Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Experience? [n] the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher" [n] the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly" [n] an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention" [v] undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up" [v] have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" [v] undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" [v] of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [v] go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Experience: feel \| get \| go through \| have \| have \| know \| live \| receive \| see \| undergo Related Terms \| Find terms related to Experience: accept \| acquaintance \| adventure \| affair \| affect \| affection \| apprehend \| awareness \| background \| be aware of \| be conscious of \| be exposed to \| be sensible of \| be subjected to \| behold \| blaseness \| circumstance \| common sense \| consciousness \| contact \| corpus \| data \| datum \| emotion \| emotional charge \| emotional shade \| encounter \| endure \| episode \| event \| expertise \| exposure \| face \| fact \| facts \| factual base \| familiarity \| feel \| feel deeply \| feeling \| feeling tone \| foreboding \| go through \| gut reaction \| hap \| happening \| happenstance \| have \| have a sensation \| hear \| heartthrob \| impression \| incident \| information \| intelligence \| intimacy \| involvement \| inwardness \| judgement \| ken \| know \| know-how \| knowing \| knowledge \| labor under \| live through \| matter of fact \| meet \| meet up with \| meet with \| observation \| occasion \| occurrence \| ordeal \| participation \| particular \| pass through \| passion \| past experience \| pay \| perceive \| percept \| perception \| phenomenon \| practical knowledge \| practice \| presentiment \| private knowledge \| privity \| profound sense \| ratio cognoscendi \| reaction \| reality \| receive \| receive an impression \| respond \| respond to stimuli \| response \| response to stimuli \| run up against \| sagacity \| sample \| savoir faire \| savor \| savvy \| seasoning \| see \| self-knowledge \| sensation \| sense \| sense impression \| sense perception \| sensory experience \| sentiment \| skill \| smell \| sophistication \| spend \| stand under \| suffer \| survey \| sustain \| taste \| technic \| technics \| technique \| tempering \| test \| touch \| trial \| turn of events \| undercurrent \| undergo \| view \| wisdom \| worldly wisdom See Also \| anger \| appalling \| augury \| beam \| boil \| burn \| chafe \| change \| cognitive content \| come \| compassionate \| comprehend \| condole with \| congratulate \| content \| cool off \| die \| education \| encounter \| endure \| enjoy \| entertain \| experience \| experience \| familiarisation \| familiarization \| feel \| feel for \| find \| flash \| flashing \| fly high \| foretoken \| fume \| glow \| go through \| happening \| harbor \| harbour \| high point \| hold \| horripilate \| joy \| know \| life \| live \| live over \| living \| loss \| meet \| meet \| mental object \| natural event \| nurse \| occurrence \| ordeal \| participate \| perceive \| pity \| plume \| preindication \| pride \| pride oneself \| radiate \| reality \| recapture \| receive \| re-experiencing \| regret \| rejoice \| relive \| reliving \| reminder \| repent \| respire \| rue \| sadden \| see \| see red \| seethe \| shine \| sign \| smolder \| smoulder \| suffer \| suffer \| sustain \| sympathise \| sympathize \| sympathize with \| take \| take part \| take pride \| taste \| time \| undergo \| vision \| witness \| woodcraft \| world Experience In Webster's Dictionary \Expe"rience\, 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.

Experience Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Experience?

[n] the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher"
[n] the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"
[n] an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention"
[v] undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up"
[v] have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"
[v] undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"
[v] of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
[v] go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"

Experience In Webster's Dictionary

\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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