Experience vs Instinct - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between experience and instinct

is that experience is event(s) of which one is cognizant while instinct is a natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.

As a verb experience

is 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 an adjective instinct is

imbued, charged ({{term|with}} something).

experience

English

(wikipedia 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

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instinct

English

(wikipedia instinct)

Noun

A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.

Many animals fear fire by instinct .

* Shakespeare

By a divine instinct , men's minds mistrust / Ensuing dangers.

* {{quote-book

, year=1921 , title= , author=Bertrand Russell , passage=In spite of these qualifications, the broad distinction between instinct and habit is undeniable. To take extreme cases, every animal at birth can take food by instinct, before it has had opportunity to learn; on the other hand, no one can ride a bicycle by instinct, though, after learning, the necessary movements become just as automatic as if they were instinctive.}}

An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.

an instinct''' for order; to be modest by '''instinct

Debbie's instinct was to distrust John.

Derived terms

* instinctively * instinctive

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Imbued, charged ((with) something).

* Milton

The chariot of paternal deity / Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed / By four cherubic shapes.

* Brougham

a noble performance, instinct with sound principle

* 1928 , (HP Lovecraft), ‘The Call of Cthulhu’:

This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters.

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