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experience
[ ik-speer-ee-uhns ]
noun
- 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.
experience
/ ɪkˈspɪərɪəns /
noun
- 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
verb
- to participate in or undergo
- to be emotionally or aesthetically moved by; feel
to experience beauty
Derived Forms
- exˈperienceable, adjective
Other Words From
- ex·peri·ence·a·ble adjective
- ex·peri·ence·less adjective
- postex·peri·ence adjective
- preex·peri·ence noun verb (used with object) preexperienced preexperiencing
- reex·peri·ence verb reexperienced reexperiencing
Word History and Origins
Origin of experience1
Word History and Origins
Origin of experience1
Idioms and Phrases
- experience religion, to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God.
Example Sentences
When you go to a restaurant, you are as much responsible for having a good experience as the restaurant is for providing it.
Gibbs has little experience in federal personnel matters, having worked mainly in the software industry before going to HUD, where he oversees a community planning and development office.
Warner Bros’ sci-fi thriller was viewed as the main litmus test for whether audiences were ready to embrace the theatrical experience again, after nearly six months of shuttered theaters due to the pandemic.
I think there’s a narrative that we can learn on the job, and I do believe a lot of people can, and have, but felt that learning from other people’s experiences and from experts made more sense to me.
At a time when people are not together, create a shared experience where people can come together.
Should capability delivery experience additional changes, this estimate will be revised appropriately.
Women are more likely to recover sooner from birth and less likely to experience post-partum depression.
And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”
He flew with Captain Irianto, 53, who had 20,000 hours experience, more than 6,000 hours on the A320.
The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.
The experience of the Jesuit fathers at Port Royal is related at length, from their own point of view.
With Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.
I cannot see in science, nor in experience, nor in history any signs of such a God, nor of such intervention.
Knowing by experience that he would soon be up to it, he used his pole with all his might, hoping to steer clear of it.
The real experience has a magnetism of its own and will win above mere technicality whenever it has the opportunity.
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How Do You Spell Experience?
Spelling tips for experience
The word experience is hard to spell for two reasons. First, it is tempting to use an a rather than an e in the final syllable, as in experiance. Second, people often think the final [ s] sound is spelled with an s rather than a c, as in experiense.
How to spell experience: An experience is an expert science. Drop the final t in expert and the sc- in science, and you get experience.
When To Use
What is another way to say experience?
To experience something is to meet with it or feel it firsthand. How is experience different from undergo? Find out on Thesaurus.com.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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