experience

Meaning

1. 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.
2. An activity one has performed.
3. A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
4. The knowledge thus gathered.
5. (obsolete) Trial; a test or experiment.

feel

undergo

occurence

present at

be aware

become familiar

become popular

be conscious of

be subject to

call to mind

land on

suffer from

take upon oneself

want to

undergo an experience

personal history

seeing and hearing

come into contact with

being accustomed

poise in a critical situation

emotional experience

practical knowledge

approof

meaning

adversely affected by

ability

apperceive

come to know

emotion

Frequency

Hyphenated as

ex‧pe‧ri‧ence

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪəns/

From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia (“a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”), from experiens, present participle of experiri (“to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo”), from ex (“out”) + peritus (“experienced, expert”), past participle of *periri (“to go through”); see expert and peril. Displaced native Old English āfandung (“experience”) and āfandian (“to experience”).

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