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[ adjective ] relating to or resulting from experience
Examples "a personal, experiental reality" Used in print (John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated . A word taken in its dictionary meaning , a photographic image of a recognizable object , the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings . Similarly experience itself can be conventionalized so that people react to certain preconceived clues for behavior without awareness of the vitality of their experiential field . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] derived from experience or the experience of existence
Synonyms Examples "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)Demons , fairies , angels , and a host of other spiritual_beings were as much a part of the experiential world of western man as were rocks and trees and stars . Related terms |
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