experience

1. The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities (synset 105766056)
   "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher"
   is a type of: education - knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
   subtypes:

   • familiarisation, familiarization - the experience of becoming familiar with something
   • woodcraft - skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping)
2. The content of direct observation or participation in an event (synset 105993469)
   "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"
   is a type of: cognitive content, content, mental object - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
   subtypes:

   • reality, world - all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
   • life, living - the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
   • re-experiencing, reliving - a recurrence of a prior experience
   • reminder - an experience that causes you to remember something
3. An event as apprehended (synset 107300108)
   "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention"
   is a type of: happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens
   subtypes:

   • appalling - an experience that appalls
   • augury, foretoken, preindication, sign - an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
   • flash, flashing - a short vivid experience
   • blast, good time - a highly pleasurable or exciting experience
   • loss - the experience of losing a loved one
   • near-death experience - the experience of being close to death but surviving
   • ordeal - a severe or trying experience
   • out-of-body experience - the dissociative experience of observing yourself from an external perspective as though your mind or soul had left and was observing your body
   • taste - a brief experience of something
   • time - a person's experience on a particular occasion
   • head trip, trip - an exciting or stimulating experience
   • vision - a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance
   has: high point - the most enjoyable part of a given experience

1. Undergo or live through a difficult experience (synset 202114674)
   "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"
   is a type of: undergo - pass through
   subtypes:

   • experience, know, live - have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
   • endure, suffer - undergo or be subjected to
   • meet, suffer - undergo or suffer
   • feel - undergo passive experience of
   • enjoy - have for one's benefit
   • find, see, witness - perceive or be contemporaneous with
   • come - experience orgasm
   same as: go through, see
2. Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations (synset 200598039)
   "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"
   is a type of: experience, go through, see - undergo or live through a difficult experience
   subtypes:

   • taste - experience briefly
   • live over, relive - experience again, often in the imagination
   same as: know, live
3. Go through (mental or physical states or experiences) (synset 202112480)
   "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
   entail: comprehend, perceive - to become aware of through the senses
   is a type of: undergo - pass through
   subtypes:

   • get, have, suffer, sustain - undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
   • take - experience or feel or submit to
   • horripilate - have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps
   same as: get, have, receive
4. Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind (synset 201775456)
   "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"
   subtypes:

   • incline - feel favorably disposed or willing
   • recapture - experience anew
   • congratulate, plume, pride - be proud of
   • smolder, smoulder - have strong suppressed feelings
   • entertain, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse - maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
   • cool off - feel less enamoured of something or somebody
   • anger, see red - become angry
   • chafe - feel extreme irritation or anger
   • suffer - experience (emotional) pain
   • fume - be mad, angry, or furious
   • regret, repent, rue - feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
   • sadden - come to feel sad
   • joy, rejoice - feel happiness or joy
   • sympathise, sympathize - share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of
   • pride oneself, take pride - feel proud of
   • burn - feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
   • die - feel indifferent towards
   • fly high - be elated
   • beam, glow, radiate, shine - experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
   • glow - be exuberant or high-spirited
   same as: feel
5. Undergo (synset 200120854)
   "The stocks had a fast run-up"
   is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
   subtypes: encounter, meet, receive - experience as a reaction
   same as: have

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