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experientially

experientially

1 7.3
In a way that uses personal experience and direct practice
  • adverb
  • /ɪkˌspɪrɪˈɛnʃəli/
translation icon : experiencial
  • The workshop was designed to help participants learn experientially, allowing them to apply theories directly to real-life situations.
  • learning experientially
  • experientially based

So you learn something experientially there, which is an incredible thing.

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Examples

  • She engaged experientially with the community by participating in various local events.

  • All of us have to learn what it means experientially to love.

  • So you learn something experientially there, which is an incredible thing.

  • And I can tell you as a patient and as a physician, experientially it is very distinct.

  • Right now, this is the teachable moment, the experientially rich moment.

    Academic text (2005)
  • In education, virtual worlds may present opportunities for learning far more experientially while using more of the senses than in a traditional classroom.

    Academic text (1997)
  • I didn't really understand experientially what he was talking about, but the style of it, the clarity, the pragmatism, the beautiful language entranced me.

  • Exploring the psychophysical aspects of shamanism has been a very important process for me, both experientially and cognitively.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Service learning (SL) is an experientially based pedagogy that is ideally suited to educating teachers (Erickson & Anderson, 1997).

    Academic text (2000)
  • Through field trips and hands-on activities, students learn experientially about different cultures.

Synonyms

personally
vsexperientially
548 2.8

Someone does it themselves rather than using others

focuses on personal experience or direct involvement rather than general manner
firsthand
vsexperientially
167 3.5

From direct personal experience rather than from someone else

is based on personal involvement rather than on source proximity
phenomenologically
vsexperientially
1 9.9

In a way that describes only what is seen or experienced, not theory

applies to personal involvement and lived experience rather than analytic observation

How Experience-Based

experientially
1 7.3
personally
548 2.8
practically
12 2.5
theoretically
119 6.0

Surface Forms

experientially positive

Morphology

experientially = experiential (transparent) = experience + al + ly

Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'experiential', which itself is a straightforward adjective from 'experience'.

Etymology

The word experientially comes from the same root as experience and experiment, from the old Latin word experiri meaning 'to try'. So, to learn experientially is to learn by doing or by direct personal involvement.