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EXPERIENTIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does experiential mean?
• EXPERIENTIAL (adjective)
The adjective EXPERIENTIAL has 2 senses:
1. relating to or resulting from experience
2. derived from experience or the experience of existence
Familiarity information: EXPERIENTIAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or resulting from experience
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
a personal, experiential reality
Pertainym:
experience (the content of direct observation or participation in an event)
Derivation:
experience (the content of direct observation or participation in an event)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Derived from experience or the experience of existence
Synonyms:
existential; experiential
Context example:
formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters
Similar:
empiric; empirical (derived from experiment and observation rather than theory)
Derivation:
experience (the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities)
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