Adventure vs. Experience — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adventure and Experience
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Definitions
Adventure
An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically bold, sometimes risky or undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports.
Experience
Experience is the process through which conscious organisms perceive the world around them. Experiences can be accompanied by active awareness on the part of the person having the experience, although they need not be.
Adventure
An unusual and exciting or daring experience
Her recent adventures in Italy
Experience
The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind
A child's first experience of snow.
Adventure
Engage in daring or risky activity
They had adventured into the forest
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Experience
Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill
A lesson taught by experience.
A carpenter with experience in roof repair.
Adventure
An undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.
Experience
The knowledge or skill so derived.
Adventure
An undertaking of a questionable nature, especially one involving intervention in another state's affairs.
Experience
An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
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Adventure
An unusual or exciting experience
An adventure in dining.
Experience
The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.
Adventure
Participation in hazardous or exciting experiences
The love of adventure.
Experience
To participate in personally; undergo
Experience a great adventure.
Experienced loneliness.
Adventure
A financial speculation or business venture.
Experience
The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
It was an experience he would not soon forget.
Adventure
To venture upon; undertake or try
Adventure a joke.
Experience
(countable) An activity one has performed.
Adventure
To expose to danger or risk
"I had adventured other people's safety in a course of self-indulgence" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
Experience
(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
Adventure
To proceed despite risks
Adventure into the wilderness.
Experience
(uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
Adventure
To take a risk; dare
"the first glass of wine I have adventured to drink" (Lawrence Sterne).
Experience
Trial; a test or experiment.
Adventure
The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
Experience
(transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
Adventure
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
A life full of adventures.
Experience
Trial, as a test or experiment.
She caused him to make experienceUpon wild beasts.
Adventure
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Experience
The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.
Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.
Adventure
(uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
His sense of adventure
Experience
An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.
Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.
Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment.
Adventure
(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
Experience
To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.
The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India.
Adventure
(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
Experience
To exercise; to train by practice.
The youthful sailors thus with early careTheir arms experience, and for sea prepare.
Adventure
(obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
Experience
The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities;
A man of experience
Experience is the best teacher
Adventure
(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
Experience
The content of direct observation or participation in an event;
He had a religious experience
He recalled the experience vividly
Adventure
To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
Experience
An event as apprehended;
A surprising experience
That painful experience certainly got our attention
Adventure
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Experience
Go or live through;
We had many trials to go through
He saw action in Viet Nam
Adventure
To try the chance; to take the risk.
Experience
Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations;
I know the feeling!
Have you ever known hunger?
I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict
The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare
I lived through two divorces
Adventure
That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually.
Experience
Of mental or physical states or experiences;
Get an idea
Experience vertigo
Get nauseous
Undergo a strange sensation
The chemical undergoes a sudden change
The fluid undergoes shear
Receive injuries
Have a feeling
Adventure
Risk; danger; peril.
He was in great adventure of his life.
Experience
Undergo an emotional sensation;
She felt resentful
He felt regret
Adventure
The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
He loved excitement and adventure.
Experience
Undergo;
The stocks had a fast run-up
Adventure
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
Adventure
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Adventure
To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
He would not adventure himself into the theater.
Adventure
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Yet they adventured to go back.
Discriminations might be adventured.
Adventure
To try the chance; to take the risk.
I would adventure for such merchandise.
Adventure
A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
Adventure
Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;
When you buy these stocks you are gambling
Adventure
Put at risk;
I will stake my good reputation for this
