Experience

/ɪkˈspɪəriəns/ noun, verb

Noun: Knowledge or skill that you gain over time from doing, seeing, or feeling things. Verb: To go through an event or feeling personally.

From Latin *experientia* ‘a trial, proof’, from *experiri* ‘to try, test’. The root *per-* is about ‘trying’ or ‘risking’, as in ‘peril’.

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