'Experience' definitions:
Definition of 'experience'
(from WordNet)
noun
The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher" [ant: inexperience, rawness]
noun
The content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"
noun
An event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention"
verb
Go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" [syn: experience, see, go through]
verb
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" [syn: know, experience, live]
verb
Go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience, receive, have, get]
verb
Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" [syn: feel, experience]
verb
Undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up" [syn: have, experience]
Definition of 'Experience'
From: GCIDE
- Experience \Ex*pe"ri*ence\ ([e^]ks*p[=e]"r[i^]*ens), n. [F. exp['e]rience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, experientis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of peritus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert.]
- 1. Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. --P. Henry [1913 Webster]
- To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it. --Sharp. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Experience'
From: GCIDE
- Experience \Ex*pe"ri*ence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experienced ([e^]ks*p[=e]"r[i^]*enst); p. pr. & vb. n. Experiencing ([e^]ks*p[=e]"r[i^]*en*s[i^]ng).]
- 1. To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views. [1913 Webster]
- The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India. --Thirwall. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To exercise; to train by practice. [1913 Webster]
- The youthful sailors thus with early care Their arms experience, and for sea prepare. --Harte. [1913 Webster]
- To experience religion (Theol.), to become a convert to the doctrines of Christianity; to yield to the power of religious truth. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'experience'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Experience'
- Experient,
- Experiment,
- Experimentative,
- Experimented,
- through an experiment,
- Experience table,
- Experiment, GA,
- To experience religion,
- Valsalvian experiment,
- control experiment,
- perceptual experience,
- pilot experiment,
- sense experience,
- out-of-body experience,
- double-blind experiment,
- michelson-morley experiment,
- near-death experience