- a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.
- 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.
- knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience.
- the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.
- to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea.
- to learn by experience.
- to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God.
- direct personal participation or observation; actual knowledge or contact
- a particular incident, feeling, etc, that a person has undergone
- accumulated knowledge, esp of practical matters
- 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
- philosophy
- the content of a perception regarded as independent of whether the apparent object actually exists
- 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
- to participate in or undergo
- to be emotionally or aesthetically moved by; feel
