different between experienced vs unexperienceable

English

Etymology

experience +? -ed.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

experienced (comparative more experienced, superlative most experienced)

1. Having experience and skill in a subject.
2. Experient.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:experienced

Antonyms

• inexperienced
• green

Translations

Verb

experienced

1. past participle of experience

English

Etymology

un- +? experienceable

Adjective

unexperienceable (not comparable)

1. (chiefly philosophy) Incapable of being experienced.
   • 1912, W. P. Montague, "The New Realism and the Old," The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, vol. 9, no. 2 (Jan. 18), p. 45:

     It is at the cost of making the absolute unknowable, of reducing it to the status of the unexperienceable external world of the dualistic realist.

   • 2000, Kevin Schilbrack, "Metaphysics in D?gen," Philosophy East and West, vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan), p. 53 n61:

     It is beyond logic, an inconceivable but not unexperienceable unity of opposites.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.