The changes, in other words, are not accidental - not the natural attrition caused by diluting and filtering first-hand experience into second-hand experience.

Compare second-hand experience or second-hand knowledge.

When one person tells another person, the other person has second-hand experience.

With searing insight, Catherine knew she wanted him to remember making love to her himself, not as a second-hand experience from the spirit of another man.

It had had less than twenty-four hours in which to acquire-by second-hand experience -a knowledge of a human world.

She shook her head at the "second-hand experience" of the movies.

"They don't even know what a tree is, or what has been destroyed so they can get that second-hand experience."

Therefore she tries to gain experience through Keith and the therapy group to have at least second-hand experience to deal with.

Finally, most either had first-hand experience in travel overseas, or second-hand experience through contacts with foreign advisors in Japan.

Murder had a kind of dignity compared with this muted second-hand experience of scared secretive passions.