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The definition of experience

7 Definitions of: experience

    1. noun, direct personal participation or observation; actual knowledge or contact
    2. noun, a particular incident, feeling, etc, that a person has undergone
    3. noun, accumulated knowledge, esp of practical matters
    4. noun, a) the totality of characteristics, both past and present, that make up the particular quality of a person, place, or people b) the impact made on an individual by the culture of a people, nation, etc
    5. noun, philosophy a) the content of a perception regarded as independent of whether the apparent object actually exists. Compare sense datum b) the faculty by which a person acquires knowledge of contingent facts about the world, as contrasted with reason c) the totality of a person's perceptions, feelings, and memories
    6. verb, to participate in or undergo
    7. verb, to be emotionally or aesthetically moved by; feel
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