Adjective

(en adjective)

Having experience and skill in a subject.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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Experient.

Adjective

(-)

(chiefly, philosophy) Incapable of being experienced.

* 1912 , W. P. Montague, "The New Realism and the Old," The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods , vol. 9, no. 2 (Jan. 18) , p. 45:

It is at the cost of making the absolute unknowable, of reducing it to the status of the unexperienceable external world of the dualistic realist.

* 2000 , Kevin Schilbrack, "Metaphysics in D?gen," Philosophy East and West , vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan), p. 53 n61:

It is beyond logic, an inconceivable but not unexperienceable unity of opposites.