a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something

My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.

the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something

business experience.

the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time

to learn from experience; the range of human experience.

knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone

a man of experience.

Philosophy . the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.

to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel

to experience nausea.

to learn by experience. ?

experience religion

to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God.

noun

ignorance , immaturity , inexperience

noun

acquaintance , action , actuality , background , caution , combat , contact , doing , empiricism , evidence , existence , exposure , familiarity , forebearance , intimacy , involvement , inwardness , judgment , know-how * , maturity , observation , participation , patience , perspicacity , practicality , practice , proof , reality , savoir-faire , seasoning , sense , skill , sophistication , strife , struggle , training , trial , understanding , wisdom , worldliness , adventure , affair , encounter , episode , event , incident , ordeal , test , trip , behold , endure , feel , feeling , have , identification , know , know-how , knowledge , live , savoir faire , suffer , sustain , taste , undergo , versatility , vicariousness , vicissitudes , view

verb

feel , go through , have , know , meet , see , suffer , taste , undergo , savor