Experience
Experience noun - Knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something.
Intelligence and experience are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Intelligence" instead a noun "Experience".
Intelligence
Intelligence noun - The ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems.
Experience and intelligence are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Experience" instead a noun "Intelligence".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- understanding and experience
- understanding and intelligence
- sense and experience
- sense and intelligence
- ability and experience
- ability and intelligence
- skill and experience
- skill and intelligence
- talent and experience
- talent and intelligence
- awareness and experience
- awareness and intelligence
- observation and experience
- observation and intelligence
How words are described
| emotional | emotional experience | emotional intelligence |
| human | human experience | human intelligence |
| good | good experience | good intelligence |
| valuable | valuable experience | valuable intelligence |
| Other adjectives: high, full, better, similar, normal, complete, actual, real, massive, superior, little, bad, social, necessary, less, extra, vast, greater. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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In her current Eldritch Abomination form she initially struggles against a being of similar power but vastly less experience, skill and intelligence before she bothers to get serious.
Source: Lazy Bum aka: Sloth - Zima in Zima Blue was originally built by a tinkerer as a pooling cleaning robot with brick-level intelligence which could nonetheless experience "satisfaction" from accomplishing its task.
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On the other hand, on his work experience placement at a newspaper, Neil is rewarded and showered with praise for having no intelligence or sentient thought at all.
Source: Series / The Inbetweeners
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