Experience
Experience noun - Knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something.
Past and experience are semantically related in background topic. In some cases you can use "Past" instead a noun "Experience".
Past
Past noun - The events or experience of former times.
Experience and past are semantically related in background topic. Sometimes you can use "Experience" instead a noun "Past", if it concerns topics such as history.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human experience | human past |
| good | good experience | good past |
| full | full experience | full past |
| long | long experience | long past |
| Other adjectives: similar, painful, actual, entire, real, bad, terrible, horrible, traumatic, interesting, sexual, personal, new, near, possible, shared, military, different, horrific. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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New Meat: Murphy, even with all her experience gained over the past few years, calls herself "the new kid" compared to veterans like Michael, Luccio, Gard, and Harry.
Source: Literature / Small Favor - Over time, we find out details about his past, like the death of his son Lu Ten, and his experience as a war hero and a mystic.
Source: Enigmatic Minion -
A ruthless dictator in life, he enters the ring with his past combat experience and a pendant that shoots solar energy, which is most fortunate as his opponent is a vampire.
Source: Mummy
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