Anagram Solver

Definitions for Experience

[1] a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
[2] the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.
[3] 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.
[4] knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience.
[5] Philosophy . the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.
[6] to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea.
[7] to learn by experience.
[8] experience religion , to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God.
[9] direct personal participation or observation; actual knowledge or contact experience of prison life
[10] a particular incident, feeling, etc, that a person has undergone an experience to remember
[11] accumulated knowledge, esp of practical matters a man of experience
[12] 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
[13] 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
[14] to participate in or undergo
[15] to be emotionally or aesthetically moved by; feel to experience beauty

Words related to Experience

training, maturity, practice, understanding, wisdom, patience, contact, involvement, struggle, background, sense, action, know-how, skill, reality, participation, incident, ordeal, event, encounter

Words nearby Experience

expendable, expenditure, expense, expense account, expensive, experience, experience is the best teacher, experience meeting, experience point, experience table, experienced

Origin of Experience

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin experientia, equivalent to experient- (stem of experiēns, past participle of experīrī to try, test; see ex-1, peril) + -ia noun suffix; see -ence

Other words from Experience

ex·pe·ri·ence·a·ble , adjective
ex·pe·ri·ence·less , adjective
post·ex·pe·ri·ence , adjective
pre·ex·pe·ri·ence , noun, verb (used with object), pre·ex·pe·ri·enced, pre·ex·pe·ri·enc·ing.
re·ex·pe·ri·ence , verb, re·ex·pe·ri·enced, re·ex·pe·ri·enc·ing.
ex•pe′ ri•ence v.

Word origin for Experience

C14: from Latin experientia, from experīrī to prove; related to Latin perīculum peril

Synonyms for Experience

action, background, contact, involvement, know-how, maturity, participation, patience, practice, reality, sense, skill, struggle, training, understanding, wisdom, acquaintance, actuality, caution, combat, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, intimacy, inwardness, judgment, observation, perspicacity, practicality, proof, savoir-faire, seasoning, sophistication, strife, trial, worldliness, forebearance