Pre-experience
noun
1.
a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something:
My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
2.
the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something:
business experience.
3.
the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time:
to learn from experience; the range of human experience.
4.
knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone:
a man of experience.
5.
Philosophy. the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.
verb (used with object), experienced, experiencing.
6.
to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel:
to experience nausea.
7.
to learn by experience.
Idioms
8.
experience religion, to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God.
noun
1.
direct personal participation or observation; actual knowledge or contact: experience of prison life
2.
a particular incident, feeling, etc, that a person has undergone: an experience to remember
3.
accumulated knowledge, esp of practical matters: a man of experience
4.
the totality of characteristics, both past and present, that make up the particular quality of a person, place, or people
the impact made on an individual by the culture of a people, nation, etc: the American experience
5.
(philosophy)
the content of a perception regarded as independent of whether the apparent object actually exists Compare sense datum
the faculty by which a person acquires knowledge of contingent facts about the world, as contrasted with reason
the totality of a person’s perceptions, feelings, and memories
verb (transitive)
6.
to participate in or undergo
7.
to be emotionally or aesthetically moved by; feel: to experience beauty
experience ex·pe·ri·ence (ĭk-spēr’ē-əns)
n.
The feeling of emotions and sensations as opposed to thinking; involvement in what is happening rather than abstract reflection on an event.
ex·pe’ri·ence v.
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