lived experience

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lived experience

noun lived experiences

  1. countable, uncountable The experiences and choices of a given person, and the knowledge that they gain as a result. In the philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey, the human sciences are based on lived experience, which makes them fundamentally different from the natural sciences, which are considered to be based on scientific experiences.

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noun experiences and choices of a given person

Españolexperiencia vivida, vivencia
中文人生經歷 /人生经历 rénshēng jīnglì, 切身經歷 /切身经历 qièshēn jīnglì

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@misc{lived_experience_2026,
  title = {lived experience},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lived%20experience},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}