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In my book there is a sentence:

I hadn't yet heard people speak openly of untouchability, but I had already seen felt experienced and been humiliated by what it is.

What is the difference between felt and experienced here?? And why do people use such words so confusingly....

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    Did you look at the dictionary definitions of "feel" and "experience"? What difference did you find? Commented Nov 15 at 14:21
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    All the terms are similar in meaning, though each incorporates a range of meanings; using multiple similar terms together expresses a wider range of meanings than using a single word: there are multiple effects and consequences. That maybe answers the last part of the question. (I don't know if there's a rhetorical term for this, maybe someone else knows.) Commented Nov 15 at 14:36
  • In your book....the one you wrote? Commented Nov 15 at 14:38
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    Hi, welcome to EL&U! Congratulations on your first question. Could you tell us the name of the book, please? Commented Nov 15 at 14:42
  • The cited text appears in dozens of books, all of which are from publishers who specialise in TEFL texts. After scrolling through a couple of dozen matches in Google Books, I gave up trying to find an "original" source. Commented Nov 15 at 16:36

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