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[ noun ] the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
Examples "a man of experience" "experience is the best teacher" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)The terms are generally taken_for_granted as though they referred to direct and axiomatic elements in the common experience of all . For in the modern_world neither `` spirit '' nor `` matter '' refer to any generally agreed-upon elements of experience . In such a world the words `` matter '' and `` spirit '' both referred to directly known realities in the common experience of all . The objectification of the world of spirit in popular superstition had certainly gone far beyond what the experience of spirit could justify or support . Science is fully competent to deal with any element of experience which arises from an object in space and time . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the content of direct observation or participation in an event
Examples "he had a religious experience" "he recalled the experience vividly" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective , the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever . There is no framework or structure of thought with_respect_to which we can organize it and no part of reality , as we know and apprehend it , with_respect_to which we can refer this experience . (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)In representing part of this new picture , I will be recounting some of my own personal experiences , reactions and judgments ; but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican_Churches and about the present religious state of England . It has been my experience to find as many men as women in church , and to hear almost everyone in church congregations reciting the Latin prayers and responses at Mass . (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)One year I simply set the plants in the remains of a compost pile , to which a_little sand had been added , and I had the most beautiful pansies in my , or any of my neighbors ' experience . |
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[ noun ] an event as apprehended
Examples "a surprising experience" "that painful experience certainly got our attention" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)In an effort to fortify himself against the unforeseen upsets sure to arise in the future , Herbert_A._Leggett , banker editor of the Phoenix `` Arizona_Progress '' , reflects upon a_few of the depressing experiences of the feverish fifties . (High Fidelity, 11:10...)It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high_fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener . The home listener is overpowered , all_right , but the experience is a far from pleasant one . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)This experience will have happened to many of you . Emerson , in his lecture , refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before , whether dreaming or waking , a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room , and heard precisely this dialogue , at some former hour , they know not when '' . |
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[ verb ] go or live through
Synonyms Examples "We had many trials to go through" "he saw action in Viet Nam" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Mr._A. , her fellow townsman , also experienced a nervous_breakdown just as_soon_as he discovered that he had been bilked of his life savings by the limited practitioner who had been treating his wife - a woman suffering from an incurable disease , multiple_sclerosis - and himself . (Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)Despite extensive attempts to obtain highly pure reagents , serious difficulty was experienced in obtaining reproducible rates of reaction . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)There is also the possibility , among higher religions , of experiencing consistent meaning in life and enjoying guidance and expansiveness . (Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)The parties were on_the_whole unprepared for elections , while the people were still experiencing post independence let-down and suffering the after_effects of poor harvests in 1957 . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)She was a child too much a part of her environment , too eager to grow and learn and experience . |
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[ verb ] have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
Examples "I know the feeling!" "have you ever known hunger?" "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict" "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare" Used in print (John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)Marketing in the new decade will be no picnic - for the sixties will present possibly the most intense competitive activity that you have experienced in the last 20 - 25 yr. . |
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[ verb ] of mental or physical states or experiences
Examples : "get an idea" "experience vertigo" "get nauseous" "undergo a strange sensation" "The chemical undergoes a sudden change" "The fluid undergoes shear" "receive injuries" "have a feeling" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)There is nothing to suggest that the brain can alter past impressions to fit into an original , realistic and unbroken continuity like we experience in dreams . |
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[ verb ] undergo an emotional sensation
Synonyms Examples "She felt resentful" "He felt regret" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)Yet it exists and has an objective reality which can be experienced and known . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)She experienced none of the suspense of some poor stranger selling encyclopedias . |
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