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Empiric vs Experience - What's the difference?

empiric | experience |

As nouns the difference between empiric and experience

is that empiric is a member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience while experience is experiment, trial, test.

As an adjective empiric

is empirical.

empiric

English

Alternative forms

* empirick (obsolete)

Adjective

(head)
  • empirical
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.
  • Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.
  • Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.
  • *, New York Review, Books, 2001, p.257:
  • *:An empiric oftentimes, and a silly chirurgeon, doth more strange cures than a rational physician.
  • * 1661 , (Robert Boyle), , p.24:
  • *:Paracelsus and some few other sooty Empiricks , rather then (as they are fain to call themselves) Philosophers, having their eyes darken'd, and their Brains troubl'd with the smoke of their own Furnaces, began to rail at the Peripatetick Doctrine, which they were too illiterate to understand […].
  • * John Locke
  • Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p.33:
  • *:To the disgust of doctors, the royal family at Versailles allowed one Brun, a wandering empiric  […], to administer a proprietary ‘sovereign remedy’ to the ailing monarch.
  • experience

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 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. …”}}
  • (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= Ed Pilkington
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘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.}}

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "experience": broad, wide, good, bad, great, amazing, horrible, terrible, pleasant, unpleasant, educational, financial, military, commercial, academic, political, industrial, sexual, romantic, religious, mystical, spiritual, psychedelic, scientific, human, magical, intense, deep, humbling, unforgettable, unique, exciting, exhilarating.

    Antonyms

    * inexperience

    Derived terms

    * experiential * experience points * experienced

    Verb

    (experienc)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * experienceable