Conception vs. Experience

Conceptionnoun

The act of conceiving.

Experiencenoun

Event(s) of which one is cognizant.

‘It was an experience he would not soon forget.’;

Conceptionnoun

The state of being conceived; the beginning.

Experiencenoun

(countable) An activity one has performed.

Conceptionnoun

The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.

Experiencenoun

(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.

Conceptionnoun

The start of pregnancy.

Experiencenoun

(uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.

Conceptionnoun

The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.

Experienceverb

(transitive) 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.

Conceptionnoun

The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.

Experiencenoun

Trial, as a test or experiment.

‘She caused him to make experienceUpon wild beasts.’;

Conceptionnoun

An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.

Experiencenoun

The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

‘I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.’; ‘To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.’; ‘When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.’; ‘Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.’;

Conceptionnoun

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

‘I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.’;

Experiencenoun

An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

‘Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.’; ‘Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment.’;

Conceptionnoun

The state of being conceived; beginning.

‘Joy had the like conception in our eyes.’;

Experienceverb

To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.

‘The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India.’;

Conceptionnoun

The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.

‘Under the article of conception, I shall confine myself to that faculty whose province it is to enable us to form a notion of our past sensations, or of the objects of sense that we have formerly perceived.’;

Experienceverb

To exercise; to train by practice.

‘The youthful sailors thus with early careTheir arms experience, and for sea prepare.’;

Conceptionnoun

The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension.

‘Conception consists in a conscious act of the understanding, bringing any given object or impression into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all.’;

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’;

Conceptionnoun

The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept.

‘He [Herodotus] says that the sun draws or attracts the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies.’;

Experiencenoun

the content of direct observation or participation in an event;

‘he had a religious experience’; ‘he recalled the experience vividly’;

Conceptionnoun

Idea; purpose; design.

‘Note this dangerous conception.’;

Experiencenoun

an event as apprehended;

‘a surprising experience’; ‘that painful experience certainly got our attention’;

Conceptionnoun

Conceit; affected sentiment or thought.

‘He . . . is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticism.’;

Experienceverb

go or live through;

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

Conceptionnoun

an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

Experienceverb

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’;

Conceptionnoun

the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon

Experienceverb

of mental or physical states or experiences;

‘get an idea’; ‘experience vertigo’; ‘get nauseous’; ‘undergo a strange sensation’; ‘The chemical undergoes a sudden change’; ‘The fluid undergoes shear’; ‘receive injuries’; ‘have a feeling’;

Conceptionnoun

the event that occurred at the beginning of something;

‘from its creation the plan was doomed to failure’;

Experienceverb

undergo an emotional sensation;

‘She felt resentful’; ‘He felt regret’;

Conceptionnoun

the creation of something in the mind

Experienceverb

undergo;

‘The stocks had a fast run-up’;

Conceptionnoun

the action of conceiving a child or of one being conceived

‘an unfertilized egg before conception’; ‘a rise in premarital conceptions’;

Experience

Experience is the process through which conscious organisms perceive the world around them. Experiences can be accompanied by active awareness on the part of the person having the experience, although they need not be.

Conceptionnoun

the forming or devising of a plan or idea

‘the time between a product's conception and its launch’;

Conceptionnoun

the way in which something is perceived or regarded

‘our conception of how language relates to reality’;

Conceptionnoun

an abstract idea; a concept

‘the conception of a balance of power’;

Conceptionnoun

a plan or intention

‘reconstructing Bach's original conceptions’;

Conceptionnoun

ability to imagine; understanding

‘he had no conception of politics’;