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Definition of Experience
Experience

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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.

An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

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Experience Quotations

Experience by itself is not science.
Edmund Husserl

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater

Experience Translations

experience in Afrikaans is deurmaak, ervaring, ondervinding
experience in Danish is erfaring
experience in Dutch is belevenis, ervaring, ondervinding
experience in German is Erlebnis, Erfahrung, Erfahrung
experience in Italian is esperienza
experience in Latin is sentio, experior (experiri; expertus ), usus
experience in Norwegian is erfaring
experience in Spanish is experiencia
experience in Swedish is vana, erfara, erfarenhet, uppleva, upplevelse


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