Synonyms for experience
ɪkˈspɪər i ənsex·pe·ri·ence

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1. experiencenoun

   Antonyms:
   inexperience

2. experiencenoun

   : To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

   It was an experience he would not soon forget.

   Antonyms:
   inexperience

3. experiencenoun

   Antonyms:
   inexperience

4. experiencenoun

   Antonyms:
   inexperience

5. experiencenoun

   Antonyms:
   inexperience

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1. experience

   Acquaintance between persons supposes that each knows the other; we may know a public man by his writings or speeches, and by sight, but can not claim acquaintance unless he personally knows us. There may be pleasant acquaintance with little companionship; and conversely, much companionship with little acquaintance, as between busy clerks at adjoining desks. So there may be association in business without intimacy or friendship. Acquaintance admits of many degrees, from a slight or passing to a familiar or intimate acquaintance; but acquaintance unmodified commonly signifies less than familiarity or intimacy. As regards persons, familiarity is becoming restricted to the undesirable sense, as in the proverb, "Familiarity breeds contempt;" hence, in personal relations, the word intimacy, which refers to mutual knowledge of thought and feeling, is now uniformly preferred. Friendship includes acquaintance with some degree of intimacy, and ordinarily companionship, though in a wider sense friendship may exist between those who have never met, but know each other only by word and deed. Acquaintance does not involve friendship, for one may be well acquainted with an enemy. Fellowship involves not merely acquaintance and companionship, but sympathy as well. There may be much friendship without much fellowship, as between those whose homes or pursuits are far apart. There may be pleasant fellowship which does not reach the fulness of friendship. Compare ATTACHMENT; FRIENDSHIP; LOVE. As regards studies, pursuits, etc., acquaintance is less than familiarity, which supposes minute knowledge of particulars, arising often from long experience or association.

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, association, companionship, familiarity, fellowship, friendship, intimacy, knowledge

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, ignoring, inexperience, unfamiliarity

   Preposition:
   Acquaintance with a subject; of one person with another; between persons.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. experienceverb

   Synonyms:
   try, feel, undergo, encounter, endure

   Antonyms:
   evade, escape, miss, lose

2. experiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   experiment, trial, test, proof, habit, knowledge

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.9 / 7 votes

1. experiencenoun

   the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities

   "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher"

   Antonyms:
   inexperience, rawness

2. experiencenoun

   the content of direct observation or participation in an event

   "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"

   Antonyms:
   inexperience, rawness

3. experienceverb

   an event as apprehended

   "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention"

   Antonyms:
   rawness, inexperience

4. experience, see, go throughverb

   go or live through

   "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"

   Synonyms:
   date, get word, figure, implement, go out, follow out, look, get, put through, consume, know, see to it, devour, find, view, go steady, take in, go through, live, have, meet, down, examine, carry out, construe, determine, see, receive, reckon, fancy, picture, visualize, go across, realise, control, encounter, escort, learn, envision, watch, visit, feel, run into, pass, run across, assure, come across, understand, get a line, follow through, image, take care, witness, find out, ensure, attend, pick up, regard, ascertain, catch, work through, visualise, follow up, consider, interpret, hear, run through, realize, get wind, project, discover, insure, check

   Antonyms:
   inexperience, rawness

5. know, experience, liveverb

   have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations

   "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"

   Synonyms:
   dwell, have intercourse, have a go at it, subsist, have sex, recognise, get, populate, bed, hold out, know, get laid, make love, endure, go through, bonk, have, acknowledge, cognise, survive, exist, love, last, inhabit, see, receive, be, live, sleep together, do it, go, eff, hold up, feel, lie with, make out, be intimate, recognize, jazz, sleep with, hump, screw, have it off, have it away, get it on, cognize, bang, live on, roll in the hay

   Antonyms:
   rawness, inexperience

6. experience, receive, have, getverb

   go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

   "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"

   Synonyms:
   take, pick up, make, mystify, develop, draw, have, hold, become, sustain, receive, scram, invite, consume, go, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, pay off, fix, pay back, stick, suffer, feel, beat, set about, get down, arrive, incur, deliver, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, stupefy, start, set out, birth, live, welcome, arrest, meet, give, bring, bewilder, see, mother, induce, buzz off, catch, let, feature, obtain, beget, flummox, get, generate, capture, have got, find, amaze, go through, baffle, start out, pose, vex, give birth, aim, throw, perplex, gravel, begin, fetch, father, bear, get under one's skin, encounter, puzzle, know, produce, convey, own, acquire, come, accept, possess, bugger off, cause, ingest, take in, nonplus, commence

   Antonyms:
   rawness, inexperience

7. feel, experienceverb

   undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind

   "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"

   Synonyms:
   see, get, know, find, go through, sense, have, live, palpate, finger, receive, feel

   Antonyms:
   inexperience, rawness

8. have, experienceverb

   undergo

   "The stocks had a fast run-up"

   Synonyms:
   get, throw, see, feature, suffer, accept, ingest, cause, give, feel, go through, hold, let, sustain, have, give birth, take in, birth, receive, consume, own, deliver, possess, take, live, bear, know, have got, induce, make, stimulate

   Antonyms:
   rawness, inexperience

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Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. erlebnisse

   plural of erlebnis

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

2. skillnoun

   Submitted by tuan7121993 on March 10, 2022  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. experiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   trial, proof, test, practice

2. experiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   knowledge (gained from trial or practice), experimental knowledge, practical wisdom

3. experienceverb

   Synonyms:
   try, feel, undergo, endure, put to the proof (of one's own sensations), prove by trial, have practical acquaintance with

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1. List of paraphrases for "experience":

   experiences, experiment, expertise, lessons, experiments, experienced, khabrat, khabra, experimentation, learned

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1. Immanuel Kant:

   That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.

2. Author Unknown:

   Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

3. Paul Dergarabedian:

   Barco Escape proves that a furtherance of the in-theater experience to even greater immersive levels is part of an overall strategy to differentiate the theatrical experience from the in-home experience.

4. Richard Milhous Nixon:

   I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

5. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.