experience

Meanings

Noun

  • 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.
  • An activity one has performed.
  • A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
  • The knowledge thus gathered.
  • Trial; a test or experiment.

Verb

  • To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

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Origin

  • From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia ("a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience"), from experiens, present participle of experiri, from ex + peritus, past participle of *periri; see expert and peril.

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