experience
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.
Example
“It was an experience he would not soon forget.”
Other meanings
An activity one has performed.
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.”
Related words
- coexperience
- eggsperience
- experienceless
- experiencer
- experiencewise
- interexperience
- nonexperience
- postexperience
- pseudoexperience
- sexperience
- unexperience
- inner experience
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "experientia".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “experience” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.