Experience vs. Phenomenon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Experience and Phenomenon
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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.
Phenomenon
A phenomenon (Greek: φαινόμενον, romanized: phainómenon, lit. 'thing appearing to view'; plural phenomena) is an observable fact or event. The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which cannot be directly observed.
Experience
The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind
A child's first experience of snow.
Phenomenon
An occurrence, circumstance, or fact that is perceptible by the senses.
Experience
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.
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Phenomenon
An unusual, significant, or unaccountable fact or occurrence; a marvel.
Experience
The knowledge or skill so derived.
Phenomenon
A remarkable or outstanding person; a paragon.
Experience
An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
Phenomenon
(Philosophy) In the philosophy of Kant, an object as it is perceived by the senses, as opposed to a noumenon.
Experience
The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.
Phenomenon
(Physics) An observable event.
Experience
To participate in personally; undergo
Experience a great adventure.
Experienced loneliness.
Phenomenon
A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
Experience
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.
It was an experience he would not soon forget.
Phenomenon
(by extension) A knowable thing or event eg by inference, especially in science
An electromagnetic phenomenon.
Experience
(countable) An activity one has performed.
Phenomenon
A kind or type of phenomenon sense 1 or 2
A volcanic eruption is an impressive phenomenon.
Experience
(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
Phenomenon
Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
Experience
(uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
Phenomenon
A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
Experience
Trial; a test or experiment.
Phenomenon
A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
Experience
(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.
Phenomenon
An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).
Experience
Trial, as a test or experiment.
She caused him to make experienceUpon wild beasts.
Phenomenon
An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory.
In the phenomena of the material world, and in many of the phenomena of mind.
Experience
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.
Phenomenon
That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.
Experience
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.
Phenomenon
Any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
Experience
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.
Phenomenon
A remarkable development
Experience
To exercise; to train by practice.
The youthful sailors thus with early careTheir arms experience, and for sea prepare.
Experience
The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities;
A man of experience
Experience is the best teacher
Experience
The content of direct observation or participation in an event;
He had a religious experience
He recalled the experience vividly
Experience
An event as apprehended;
A surprising experience
That painful experience certainly got our attention
Experience
Go or live through;
We had many trials to go through
He saw action in Viet Nam
Experience
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
Experience
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
Experience
Undergo an emotional sensation;
She felt resentful
He felt regret
Experience
Undergo;
The stocks had a fast run-up
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