Is there a single word or phrase for becoming more learned/smarter/knowledgeable through one's experiences?
The particular sentence I want it for is:
A child becomes ____ as it grows older and interacts with its surroundings.
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Mispelled "particular".– Jordan JelinekCommented Jul 26, 2017 at 16:06
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No single word covers all that. A child becomes more sophisticated and more savvy through experience. Does growing older really help, or is twhat else goes on?– XanneCommented Jul 26, 2017 at 19:03
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1Surely, "A child becomes experienced as it grows older..."– NVZ ♦Commented Jul 26, 2017 at 19:22
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learns
A child learns through interaction.
This is, in my opinion, far more concise, and your readers should thank you for it.
It sounds like you are describing wisdom.
A child becomes wise as it grows older and interacts with its surroundings.
Often used in the context of a particular aspect of the environment. Wise in the ways of men, for example.
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22wise+in+the+ways+of%22
Wisdom: the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise. synonyms: sagacity, intelligence, sense, common sense, shrewdness, astuteness, smartness, judiciousness, judgment, prudence, circumspection; More the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, and good judgment.
'mature' is what I finally came up with.