different between experience vs daimonic

English

Etymology

From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia (“a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”), from experiens, present participle of experiri (“to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo”), from ex (“out”) + peritus (“experienced, expert”), past participle of *periri (“to go through”); see expert and peril.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??.i.?ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??.???ns/
• Hyphenation: ex?pe?ri?ence

Noun

experience (countable and uncountable, plural experiences)

1. 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.
   • March 20, 1684-5, John Sharp, Sermon preached at Whitehall

     Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.
2. (countable) An activity one has performed.
3. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
   • 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie

     they knew soone by experience how slenderly guarded against danger, the majestie of Rulers is

   • Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.

4. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
5. (obsolete, uncountable) Trial; a test or experiment.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "experience": broad, wide, good, bad, great, amazing, horrible, terrible, pleasant, unpleasant, educational, financial, military, commercial, academic, political, industrial, sexual, romantic, religious, mystical, spiritual, psychedelic, scientific, human, magical, intense, deep, humbling, unforgettable, unique, exciting, exhilarating.

Antonyms

• inexperience

Hyponyms

• (activity one has performed): user experience

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

experience (third-person singular simple present experiences, present participle experiencing, simple past and past participle experienced)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• undergo

Derived terms

• experienceable
• re-experience. reexperience

Translations

Further reading

• experience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• experience at OneLook Dictionary Search
• experience in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "experience" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 126.
• experience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• experience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

daimon +? -ic; from Latin demon (“spirit”), originally from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n, “a god, goddess, divine power, genius, guardian spirit”). Doublet of demonic.

Pronunciation

• (dî-mòn´îk)
• Hyphenation: dai?mon?ic

Adjective

daimonic (comparative more daimonic, superlative most daimonic)

1. In the way of a daimon; befitting a demon; fiendish.
2. Motivated by a spiritual force or genius; inspired.

Noun

daimonic (uncountable)

1. (psychology) The unrest that exists in us all which forces us into the unknown, leading to self-destruction and/or self-discovery.
2. (psychology, spirituality, mythology, literature) The journey and transition from innocence to experience; part of the process of individuation.
3. (mythology, literature) The place where light and dark meet.

Quotations

• Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D., Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity. Foreword:

  The daimonic (unlike the demonic, which is merely destructive) is as much concerned with creativity as with negative reactions. A special characteristic of the daimonic model is that it considers both creativity on one side, and anger and rage on the other side, as coming from the same source. That is, constructiveness and destructiveness have the same source in human personality. The source is simply human potential.

• 1969. Rollo May, 1969, Love and Will, p. 126-130:

  The daimonic needs to be directed and channeled.... Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “demon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Rollo May, Love and Will, ISBN 393-01080-5. p. 123-124.

Anagrams

• Dominica