The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - experiencen.

1) knowledge, contact, involvement, practice, familiarity, acquaintance, exposure; participation, observation: Her book on nursing is based on personal experience. 2) incident, event, happening, affair, episode, occurrence, circumstance, adventure, encounter; trial, test, ordeal: He has lived through some harrowing experiences. 3) common sense, wisdom, sagacity, knowledge, know-how, savoir faire, savoir vivre, sophistication, skill, judgement, Slang savvy: She is a woman of experience. --v. 4) undergo, live or go through, suffer, endure, sustain, face, encounter, meet (with) , feel, sense, taste, sample, be familiar with, know: Your problem is that you have never experienced genuine hunger.