near-death experience
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- noun
- /nɪr dɛθ ɪkˈspɪrɪəns/
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experiencia cercana a la muerte
- Many people report feeling a sense of peace during a near-death experience.
- spontaneous near-death experience
- one's own near-death experience
And so call it a near death experience that we got saved.
- And so call it a near death experience that we got saved.
- Beautiful, highly detailed and highly visual near death experience, but with A twist.
- Is that throughout the years I've met people who have had near death experiences.
- So why was Robert Bigelow, a private aerospace CEO, interested in near death experiences?
- And then she had this near death experience and she finds out that all her life she had not been herself.
- Like we did a lot of river kayaking and we had a lot of near death experiences doing that and our our families hated it.
- And what's strange is when I got shot up or blown up or been like night near death experiences, which I've had quite a few, I never got.
- And I started to shiver because this was the scene I had seen in the near death experience of me standing in front of thousands of people.
- And, and you know, I like this is like a big part of this is that have you ever watched a YouTube video about a near death experience?
- This surge can actually be coherent and well organized and it's being explored as a neurobiological basis for the near death experience.
- And that near death experience transformed him to think of how he was going to build his his business completely differently.
Examples
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Your son had a near-death experience?
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Charlie, I just had a near-death experience.
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And that actually is what near death experiences tell us.
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And I mean, that was a near death experience for you, the loss of your mother recently.
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May I ask you about your near death experience?
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The question is if you've ever had a near death experience and when was it?
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Sometimes a near-death experience helps them put things in perspective.
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Her emergence from that near-death experience as a different, more sober person, someone who valued her life as an individual.
Academic text (2003) -
Here are 20 video testimonies from people with near-death experiences that claim they saw or went to hell.
Blog text (2) -
Our discussion will focus on this system as it relates to the near-death experience and the associated reactions that occur.
Academic text (1994)
How Close to Death
Surface Forms
Morphology
near-death + experience
The noun phrase is compositionally built from 'near' + 'death' + 'experience' and an average B1 learner who knows those words can infer it means an experience that occurs when someone comes close to dying. While it can refer to a specific set of sensations (an NDE) in medical or cultural discourse, the basic meaning is directly derivable and follows common cross-linguistic compounding patterns.
Etymology
The noun near-death experience comes from being near death, that is, 'almost dying'. People often report leaving their body, seeing a bright light, or feeling deep peace, so the name shows an experience people have when they come very close to death.