Appetite vs Experience - What's the difference?
appetite | experience |
Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
* (1800-1859)
The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
A taste, preference.
Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
(label) An activity which one has performed.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (label) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
(label) The knowledge thus gathered.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=
, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= 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.
As nouns the difference between appetite and experience
is that appetite is desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger while experience is experiment, trial, test.appetite
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite . There is something humiliating about it.}}
- If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
- To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous.
- The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.
Quotations
* 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle) in (The Adventure of Black Peter) *: And I return with an excellent appetite . There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast. But I am prepared to bet that you will not guess the form that my exercise has taken.Synonyms
(checksyns) * craving, longing, desire, appetency, passionDerived terms
() * appetitive * appetizer * appetizing * appetizinglyExternal links
* * * ----experience
English
(wikipedia experience)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”}}
Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}