past experience
What you've learned
Past experience is knowledge or skills gained from things that have already happened to someone.
The phrase is technically redundant—experience is by definition past—but serves as a natural intensifier emphasizing prior events: Based on past experience, I wouldn't trust him.
It often appears in job contexts: Her past experience in sales made her the ideal candidate.
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- old timesPrevious era remembered fondly
- hindsightRecognition after the fact
- life lessonsPractical wisdom from experience
background · history · flashback · recall · lessons · trial and error · school of hard knocks · wisdom · prior · former · yesterday · memoir · reflection · track record · seasoned · veteran · déjà vu · bygone
- Redundanciestautology, pleonasm, redundancy, redundant phrase, added bonus
- prior knowledgebackground, expertise, prerequisite, memory, familiarity
- GestaltGestalt, Gestalt therapy, figure-ground, closure, proximity
past experienceinexperience
Lack of prior exposure
naivety · book learning · ignorance · unfamiliarity · virgin territory
past experiencefresh start
Opportunity to restart unburdened
clean slate · blank slate · new beginning · tabula rasa · starting over
past, experience, pasts, experiences, experienced, experiencing, experiential, experientially, inexperience