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| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, intimacy, involvement, judgment, know-how*, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, forebearance, inwardness, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening, occurrence |
| Synonyms: | adventure, affair, encounter, episode, event, incident, ordeal, test, trial, trip |
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| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | adventure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | risky or unexpected undertaking |
| Synonyms: | chance, contingency, enterprise, experience, exploit, feat, happening, hazard, incident, jeopardy, occurrence, peril, scene, speculation, trip, undertaking, venture, emprise, endangerment |
| Antonyms: | avoidance, inaction, inertia, passiveness, stillness, inactivity, latency |
| Main Entry: | autobiography |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written account of one's own life |
| Synonyms: | biography, confession, diary, experience, journal, letter, life, life story, memoir, adventures, bio, letters, personal history, reminiscences, self-portrayal |
| Main Entry: | awareness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, alertness, appreciation, apprehension, attention, cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, enlightenment, experience, familiarity, information, keenness, perception, realization, recognition, sensibility, understanding, acquaintanceship, aliveness, attentiveness, bodhi, mindfulness, sentience |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, insensitivity, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | common sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sound judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, cool, experience, gumption, horse sense*, horse sense, intelligence, logic, mother wit, practicality, prudence, reason, sense, sound judgment, soundness, wisdom, wit, good reasoning, good sense, levelheadedness, rationality, reasonableness, sensibleness, sound sense, sweet reason, wits |
| Antonyms: | foolishness, impracticality, insanity, unreasonableness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | episode |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adventure; scene |
| Synonyms: | affair, business, chapter, circumstance, doings, event, experience, goings-on, happening, incident, installment, interlude, matter, occasion, occurrence, part, passage, section, thing*, what's going down |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | happening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence |
| Synonyms: | accident, adventure, affair, case, chance, circumstance, episode, event, experience, go*, incident, milestone, occasion, phenomenon, proceeding, scene, thing* |
| Antonyms: | method, plan, system |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hindsight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retrospect |
| Synonyms: | 20/20 vision, experience, knowledge, recollection, remembering, wisdom, Monday morning quarterbacking, looking back |
| Main Entry: | intimacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closeness between people |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affection, affinity, communion, confidence, experience, familiarity, friendship, understanding, close relationship, confidentiality, inwardness |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incompatibility |
| Main Entry: | know-how |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, talent |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, aptitude, art, background, capability, command, craft, cunning, dexterity, experience, expertise, faculty, flair, ingenuity, knack, knowledge, proficiency, savoir-faire, wisdom, expertness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, lack, want |
| Main Entry: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
| Synonyms: | adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, mythology, saga, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition, letters, mythos, saw |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
| Synonyms: | ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, fullness, majority, manhood, mentality, perfection, prime, readiness, sophistication, wisdom, full bloom, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, postpubescence, prime of life, ripeness, womanhood |
| Antonyms: | childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, spectacle, one for the books, rara avis, something else, stunner, uniqueness |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | right stuff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whatever it takes |
| Synonyms: | bravery, courage, credentials, drive, experience, guts, knowledge, power, self-confidence, talent, abilities, dependability, essential qualities, qualifications, skills, the goods, the makings, the stuff, what it takes |
| Main Entry: | sagacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wisdom |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, experience, foresight, insight, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, sapience, sense, shrewdness, understanding, brains, clear thinking, good judgment, levelheadedness, perceptiveness, sageness |
| Main Entry: | sample |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | taste, try |
| Synonyms: | examine, experience, experiment, inspect, partake, savor, sip, test |
| Main Entry: | savor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delight in, enjoy |
| Synonyms: | appreciate, experience, feel, gloat, know, like, partake, relish, sample, sip, smack, smell, taste, luxuriate in, revel in |
| Antonyms: | dislike, refuse, shun |
| Main Entry: | savvy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shrewdness |
| Synonyms: | acumen, awareness, comprehension, discernment, experience, grasp, grip, insight, intellect, intelligence, judgment, know-how, knowing, knowledge, mastery, perception, sense, smarts*, understanding, perceptiveness, sharpness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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