Experience vs Choice - What's the difference?
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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.
An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Steven Sloman
, title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation
, volume=100, issue=1, page=74
, magazine=
One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
Anything that can be chosen.
The best or most preferable part.
* Milton
Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
Especially good or preferred.
(slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
As nouns the difference between experience and choice
is that experience is experiment, trial, test while choice is an option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.As an adjective choice is
especially good or preferred.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.}}
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
* inexperienceDerived terms
* experiential * experience points * experiencedVerb
(experienc)Derived terms
* experienceableExternal links
* * *choice
English
(wikipedia choice)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
- Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
- The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.
- The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.
- I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice .
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (anything that can be chosen) assortment, range, selection * the cream * See alsoAdjective
(en-adj)- It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
- Choice ! I'm going to the movies.
