Experience vs Existence - What's the difference?
experience | existence |
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.
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis' of a commonplace ' existence .}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jeremy Bernstein)
, volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
As nouns the difference between experience and existence
is that experience is experiment, trial, test while existence is the state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.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
* * *existence
English
(wikipedia existence)Noun
A Palette of Particles, passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
