perit-, perien-, peri- (Latin: test, tested; try; experiment, risk, danger, dangerous, hazardous)
experience
1. A particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: "The woman's encounter with the bear on the hiking trail was a frightening experience."
2. The process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something; such as, teaching experience.
3. The observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time: to learn from experience; the range of human experience.
4. Knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience.
5. In philosophy, the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.
experienced
experiential
experientialism
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experiment
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experimentalism
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experimentation
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