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.

Related

Similar words

• undergo

Opposite words

• inexperience

Narrower meaning words

• user experience

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.