Experience vs. Idea

Experiencenoun

Event(s) of which one is cognizant.

Experiencenoun

(countable) An activity one has performed.

Experiencenoun

(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.

Experiencenoun

(uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.

Experienceverb

(transitive) 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.

Experiencenoun

Trial, as a test or experiment.

Experiencenoun

The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

Experiencenoun

An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

Experienceverb

To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.

Experienceverb

To exercise; to train by practice.

Experiencenoun

the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities;

Experiencenoun

the content of direct observation or participation in an event;

Experiencenoun

an event as apprehended;

Experienceverb

go or live through;

Experienceverb

have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations;

Experienceverb

of mental or physical states or experiences;

Experienceverb

undergo an emotional sensation;

Experienceverb

undergo;

Experience

Experience is the process through which conscious organisms perceive the world around them. Experiences can be accompanied by active awareness on the part of the person having the experience, although they need not be.

Ideanoun

(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.

Ideanoun

(obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.

Ideanoun

(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.

Ideanoun

An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.

Ideanoun

More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.

Ideanoun

A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.

Ideanoun

A purposeful aim or goal; intent

Ideanoun

A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.

Ideanoun

(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.

Ideanoun

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.

Ideanoun

A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.

Ideanoun

Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.

Ideanoun

A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.

Ideanoun

A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.

Ideanoun

A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.

Ideanoun

A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.

Ideanoun

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about;

Ideanoun

a personal view;

Ideanoun

an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;

Ideanoun

your intention; what you intend to do;

Ideanoun

(music) melodic subject of a musical composition;

Ideanoun

a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action

Ideanoun

a mental impression

Ideanoun

an opinion or belief

Ideanoun

the aim or purpose

Ideanoun

(in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.

Ideanoun

(in Kantian thought) a concept of pure reason, not empirically based in experience.

Idea

In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are abstract concepts. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object.