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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. relating to or resulting from experience;
- Example: "a personal, experiential reality"

2. derived from experience or the experience of existence;
- Example: "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington
- Example: "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey
[syn: experiential, existential]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Experiential \Ex*pe`ri*en"tial\ ([e^]ks*p[=e]`r[i^]*[e^]n"shal), a. Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is given to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. --Sir. W. Hamilton. -- Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

experiential adj 1: relating to or resulting from experience; "a personal, experiential reality" 2: derived from experience or the experience of existence; "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington; "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey [syn: experiential, existential]