experiential

/iks,piəri'enʃəl/

Thân thiện

A student gains experiential knowledge by conducting a hands-on science experiment.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Derived from or based on direct experience or observation: Pertaining to knowledge, learning, or understanding that comes from personally encountering, undergoing, or observing events, rather than from theory or abstraction.
   • Relating to or involving personal, lived reality: Concerning the subjective, firsthand reality of an individual's existence and perceptions.

Usage

• General Use: The adjective "experiential" is used to describe things that are rooted in or gained through experience. It often modifies nouns related to knowledge, learning, education, or reality.
• Academic/Formal Contexts: Commonly used in philosophy, psychology, and education to distinguish knowledge gained through direct engagement from theoretical or secondhand knowledge.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The workshop focuses on experiential learning, where students build skills through hands-on projects.
  • Her understanding of grief was not just intellectual but deeply experiential.
  • The study compares theoretical knowledge with experiential knowledge gained in the field.

Advanced Usage

• "experiential marketing": A marketing strategy that focuses on creating immersive, memorable brand experiences for consumers.

  • The company's success is due to its innovative experiential marketing campaigns that engage all the senses.

• "experiential therapy": A form of psychotherapy that uses expressive tools and activities to re-create and work through emotional experiences.

  • In experiential therapy, clients might use role-playing to process past events.

Variants and Related Words

• Experience (n/v): The event or process of personally encountering or undergoing something; to have something happen to you or be affected by it.
  • His years of experience as a doctor were invaluable.
• Experientially (adv): In a way that relates to or is based on experience.
  • She understood the concept not just theoretically but experientially.

Synonyms

• Empirical: Based on observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.
• Hands-on: Involving active participation or practical experience.
• Pragmatic: Dealing with things sensibly and realistically based on practical experience.

Antonyms

• Theoretical: Concerned with or involving the abstract principles of a subject rather than its practical application.
• Hypothetical: Based on a suggested idea or theory rather than actual fact or experience.
• Abstract: Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.

Related Phrases/Concepts

• Experiential education: A philosophy of education that emphasizes learning through direct experience and reflection.
  • Outdoor programs are often cited as prime examples of experiential education.
• Experiential knowledge: Knowledge gained from direct, personal involvement.
  • The wisdom of the elders was based on a lifetime of experiential knowledge.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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
2. relating to or resulting from experience
   • a personal, experiential reality

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• existential