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EXPERIENCE

Practical knowledge of life or of a specific field of reality, acquired through time and repeated practice | to speak from experience, having tried or undergone something directly | to gain experience, to acquire knowledge of something through direct involvement.

Any individual act, event, or situation — whether accidental or intentionally sought — in which one has taken part and from which a form of understanding, a change in behavior, or a refinement of perception has been derived.

Knowledge that, starting from sensory perception, organizes information through reflection and empirical verification; contrasted with purely abstract reasoning | pure experience, that part of experience which is not altered by intellectual elaboration.

Etymology: from Latin experientia, “trial, proof, knowledge gained by experiment,” from experiri, “to try, test.”