Definition of "experience" []

• The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind: a child's first experience of snow. (noun)
• Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill: a lesson taught by experience; a carpenter with experience in roof repair. (noun)
• The knowledge or skill so derived. (noun)
• An event or a series of events participated in or lived through. (noun)
• The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We new-born infants, without experience, were born with fear, with memory of fear; and _memory is experience_."
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