near-death experience

[ neer-deth ik-speer-ee-uhns ]

1. a sensation or vision, as of the afterlife, reported by a person who has come close to death. : nde, NDE

near-death experience

noun

1. an experience, instances of which have been widely reported, in which a person near death is apparently outside his body and aware of it and the attendant circumstances as separate from him NDE

Example Sentences

Even I, despite my near-death experience, esteem nurse practitioners highly.

From The Daily Beast

Clearly, this is not the near-death experience we typically hear about.

From The Daily Beast