Experience
Experience noun - Knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something.
Mistake and experience are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mistake" instead a noun "Experience".
Mistake
Mistake noun - A wrong judgment.
Experience and mistake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Experience" instead a noun "Mistake".
How words are described
| similar | similar experience | similar mistake |
| complete | complete experience | complete mistake |
| actual | actual experience | actual mistake |
| real | real experience | real mistake |
| Other adjectives: hard, massive, great, little, bad, terrible, horrible, easy, possible, past, worst, previous, horrific. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Instead, she does it after a traumatic experience with a stable hand that she doesn't want to admit to herself was a mistake.
Source: Literature / Song at Dawn -
As traumatic as the experience is, Liraz learns from it and doesn't make the same mistake again, allowing Ziri's soul to be saved.
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This gives Jadzia the unique experience (thanks to Timey-Wimey Ball) of confronting her future self and seeing the consequences of her mistake.
Source: Future Me Scares Me
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