Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds the doctrines of experientialism.
- Pertaining or relating to experientialism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.
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- noun A
proponent ofexperientialism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you're a true food experientialist, you'll find enough here to like or, failing that, divert.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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To the experientialist, God or the Ultimate is not so much something to be understood or comprehended but rather felt.
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Musician Adam Ezra says he considers himself as much an experientialist as a musician.
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Musician Adam Ezra says he considers himself as much an experientialist as a musician.
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(And for not dissimilar reasons, medieval mystics, like Meister Eckhart, were precisely against experientialist perennialism.
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If a mystic said for example that, “Darkness is the only way to God”, the experientialist interpreter takes this to mean that one must seek some inner state of ‘darkness’ rather than hearing it as a warning against reliance on particular beliefs, aspiration, feeling, or idols of any kind whatsoever in the encounter with the living God.’
Mystical Theology and the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy Sam Norton 2006
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