experience
/ɪkˈspɪə.ɹi.əns/ noun, verb
Forms experiences experiencing experienced
- 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. “It was an experience he would not soon forget.”
- noun (countable) An activity one has performed.
- noun (usually uncountable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills. “Virtually all employers now require jobseekers to have work experience even for entry-level roles. Many believe this will hurt companies in the long run.”
- noun (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
- noun (corporate) A business offering in which a major focus is the way that the customer interacts with the business throughout the transaction, as opposed to only its outcome (the product or service).
- noun (gaming, originally roleplaying games) Synonym of experience points
- noun (obsolete, uncountable) Trial; a test or experiment.
- verb (transitive) 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.
Synonyms
experience points undergo have see go through know live receive get feel
Antonyms
Etymology
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”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.]
- 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. "Guided by other's experiences." Shak.
- verb To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.
- verb To exercise; to train by practice.
Etymology [F. expérience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, , p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of pertus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “experience”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details