experiential Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective relating to or resulting from experience
    • a personal, experiential reality
  2. adjective satellite derived from experience or the experience of existence
    existential.
    • the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington
    • formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey

WordNet

Ex*pe`ri*en"tial adjective
Definitions
  1. Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. Coleridge.
    It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is divan to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. Sir. W. Hamiltion.
    -- Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. DR. H. More.

Webster 1913