Experience
noun
The knowledge or skill acquired by a period of practical involvement in an activity.
My work experience gave me a lot of confidence.
Often appears as...
- work experience
- personal experience
noun
An event or occurrence that leaves an impression on someone.
It was an interesting experience to work abroad.
Often appears as...
- amazing experience
- terrible experience
verb
To undergo an event or occurrence.
We experienced heavy rainfall during our vacation.
Often appears as...
- experience difficulties
- experience success
noun
The knowledge or skill acquired by a period of practical involvement in an activity.
My work experience gave me a lot of confidence.
Often appears as...
- work experience
- personal experience
noun
An event or occurrence that leaves an impression on someone.
It was an interesting experience to work abroad.
Often appears as...
- amazing experience
- terrible experience
verb
To undergo an event or occurrence.
We experienced heavy rainfall during our vacation.
Often appears as...
- experience difficulties
- experience success
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Practical Involvement
Relates to hands-on activities or direct participation, not just theoretical knowledge.
Her experience in nursing comes from years of hospital work.
Pro Tip 2/3Time-Dependent
Implies learning that accumulates over a period, not instantly.
His experience as a teacher developed over two decades.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Growth
Often used to express how someone improved or matured through activities.
Living abroad is an experience that can broaden one's perspective.
Pro Tip 1/3Practical Involvement
Relates to hands-on activities or direct participation, not just theoretical knowledge.
Her experience in nursing comes from years of hospital work.
Pro Tip 2/3Time-Dependent
Implies learning that accumulates over a period, not instantly.
His experience as a teacher developed over two decades.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Growth
Often used to express how someone improved or matured through activities.
Living abroad is an experience that can broaden one's perspective.
Pro Tip 1/3Practical Involvement
Relates to hands-on activities or direct participation, not just theoretical knowledge.
Her experience in nursing comes from years of hospital work.
Pro Tip 2/3Time-Dependent
Implies learning that accumulates over a period, not instantly.
His experience as a teacher developed over two decades.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Growth
Often used to express how someone improved or matured through activities.
Living abroad is an experience that can broaden one's perspective.
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The language of lying —...
are qualitatively different from those based on real experiences. This suggests that creating a false story about a personal topic takes work and results in a different pattern of language use. A technology known as linguistic text analysis has helped to identify four such common patterns
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Rethinking infidelity...
guilt and remorse for hurting his wife. But the truth is that I have noticed that quite a lot of people who have affairs may feel terribly guilty for hurting their partner, but they don't feel guilty for the experience of the affair itself. And that distinction is important.
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Why elephants never...
It is the hippocampus, strongly associated with emotion, that aids recollection by encoding important experiences into long-term memories. The ability to distinguish this importance makes elephant memory a complex and adaptable faculty beyond rote memorization.
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Debunking the myths of...
OCD sufferers report feeling crazy for experiencing anxiety based on irrational thoughts and finding it difficult to control their responses. So what exactly causes OCD? The frustrating answer is we don't really know. However, we have some important clues.
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What makes something...
are made clear to him. This sort of scenario is considered so characteristic of Kafka's work that scholars came up with a new word for it. Kafkaesque has entered the vernacular to describe unnecessarily complicated and frustrating experiences,
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What is bipolar...
The word bipolar means two extremes. For the many millions experiencing bipolar disorder around the world, life is split between two different realities - elation and depression. Although there are many variations of bipolar disorder,
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What is depression? -...
avoid comparing it to times you've felt down. Comparing what they're experiencing to normal, temporary feelings of sadness can make them feel guilty for struggling. Even just talking about depression openly can help.
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NASA Trailblazer:...
white men in a time when that was not popular the courage to even walk in that room with your head held high i don't think many people could do that when i think about my experiences and
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A whale saved my life PIPE...
expecting anything in return. So you might even risk your life and so it started sort of all sort of flooding in about. how this was an experience of perhaps the whale displaying
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How to deal with...
right now the world is experiencing what I experienced everyday as a child there
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The language of lying —...
are qualitatively different from those based on real experiences. This suggests that creating a false story about a personal topic takes work and results in a different pattern of language use. A technology known as linguistic text analysis has helped to identify four such common patterns
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
guilt and remorse for hurting his wife. But the truth is that I have noticed that quite a lot of people who have affairs may feel terribly guilty for hurting their partner, but they don't feel guilty for the experience of the affair itself. And that distinction is important.
Video examples
Why elephants never...
It is the hippocampus, strongly associated with emotion, that aids recollection by encoding important experiences into long-term memories. The ability to distinguish this importance makes elephant memory a complex and adaptable faculty beyond rote memorization.
Video examples
Debunking the myths of...
OCD sufferers report feeling crazy for experiencing anxiety based on irrational thoughts and finding it difficult to control their responses. So what exactly causes OCD? The frustrating answer is we don't really know. However, we have some important clues.
Video examples
What makes something...
are made clear to him. This sort of scenario is considered so characteristic of Kafka's work that scholars came up with a new word for it. Kafkaesque has entered the vernacular to describe unnecessarily complicated and frustrating experiences,
Video examples
What is bipolar...
The word bipolar means two extremes. For the many millions experiencing bipolar disorder around the world, life is split between two different realities - elation and depression. Although there are many variations of bipolar disorder,
Video examples
What is depression? -...
avoid comparing it to times you've felt down. Comparing what they're experiencing to normal, temporary feelings of sadness can make them feel guilty for struggling. Even just talking about depression openly can help.
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NASA Trailblazer:...
white men in a time when that was not popular the courage to even walk in that room with your head held high i don't think many people could do that when i think about my experiences and
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A whale saved my life PIPE...
expecting anything in return. So you might even risk your life and so it started sort of all sort of flooding in about. how this was an experience of perhaps the whale displaying
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How to deal with...
right now the world is experiencing what I experienced everyday as a child there
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Franz Kafka
Novelist
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
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T. S. Eliot
American Poet
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Joseph Campbell
American Author
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Tyler Perry
American Actor
As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Voltaire
French Writer
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
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W. C. Fields
American Comedian
Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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Rihanna
American Musician
I have such incredible experiences in my life.
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Franz Kafka
Novelist
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
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T. S. Eliot
American Poet
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Joseph Campbell
American Author
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Tyler Perry
American Actor
As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Voltaire
French Writer
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
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W. C. Fields
American Comedian
Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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Rihanna
American Musician
I have such incredible experiences in my life.
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