The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities.

Roget 490: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence^†; acquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.], privity^†, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation etc. (judgment) 480; intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics^†.    light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression etc. (idea) 453; discovery etc. 480.1. system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy^†; acroama^†; theory, aetiology^†, etiology; circle of the sciences; pandect^†, doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia; school etc. (system of opinions) 484.    tree of knowledge; republic of letters etc. (language) 560.    erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania^†, bibliolatry^†; information, general information; store of knowledge &c.; education etc. (teaching) 537; culture, menticulture^†, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge etc. (skill) 698; liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments etc. (beginning) 66.    deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge^†, acroamatic knowledge^†, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology^†.    march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning; schoolmaster abroad.    [person who knows much] scholar etc. 492.    ... show more

Roget 151: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent.    business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity (occasion) 143.    the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general; things in general, affairs in general; the times, state of affairs, order of the day; course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events; ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life; chapter of accidents etc. (chance) 156; situation etc. (circumstances) 8.    ... show more

Roget 821: feeling; suffering etc. v.; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance^†, experience, response; sympathy etc. (love) 897; impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense.    warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressement [Fr.], gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore^†, fanaticism; excitation of feeling etc. 824; fullness of the heart etc. (disposition) 820; passion etc. (state of excitability) 825; ecstasy etc. (pleasure) 827.    blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation etc. (irregular motion) 315; quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.    ... show more

Dutch: belevenis, beleving, ervaring, ondervinding
Polish: doświadczenie

The content of direct observation or participation in an event.

Dutch: ervaring

An event as apprehended.

Polish: przeżycie

Undergo or live through a difficult experience.

synonyms: go through, see.

Roget 490: know, ken [Scot.], scan, wot^†; wot aware^†, be aware of etc. adj.; ween^†, weet^†, trow^†, have, possess.    conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy [Slang], appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience.    know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of; be au courant etc. adj.; have in one's head, have at one' fingers ends; know by heart, know by rote; be master of; connaitre le dessous des cartes [Fr.], know what's what etc. 698.    see one's way; discover etc. 480.1. come to one's knowledge etc. (information) 527.    ... show more

Roget 151: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout^†, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance^†; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene^†; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off etc. (be past) 122.    meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot; find; endure etc. (feel) 821.    ... show more

Dutch: beleven, doorleven, meemaken

Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.

synonyms: know, live.

Go through (mental or physical states or experiences):
— Experience vertigo.

synonyms: get, have, receive.

Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.

synonym: feel.

Roget 821: feel; receive an impression etc. n.; be impressed with etc. adj.; entertain feeling, harbor feeling, cherish feeling etc. n.. respond; catch the flame, catch the infection; enter the spirit of.    bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole [Scot.], aby^†; abide etc. (be composed) 826; experience etc. (meet with) 151; taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand.    swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake etc. 315; be agitated, be excited etc. 824; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath.    impress etc. (excite the feelings) 824.    ... show more

Dutch: voelen

Undergo.

synonym: have.