near-death experience

[ neer-deth ik-speer-ee-uhns ]

1. a sensation or vision, as of the afterlife, reported by a person who has come close to death. : nde, NDE

near-death experience

noun

1. an experience, instances of which have been widely reported, in which a person near death is apparently outside his body and aware of it and the attendant circumstances as separate from him NDE

Example Sentences

In a new memoir, Things I Learned from Falling, Nelson gives readers an intimate look at the near-death experience and how it reshaped her life.

From Outside Online

“Maybe we’ll even go on a hike,” said Compean, adding that despite his near-death experience, he intends to revisit Angeles National Forest, his favorite hiking destination.

From Washington Post

I don’t blame those burgers for my near-death experience, but they show just how little regard I had for my health.

From Washington Post

With around 150,000 viewers watching live, Ocasio-Cortez for the first time recounted in detail what she had earlier described as a near-death experience during the attempted insurrection.

From Washington Post

In the movie version of a global near-death experience, a teenage hacker messing around with an artificial intelligence program that just happened to control the American nuclear missile force unleashes chaos.

From Ars Technica

Even I, despite my near-death experience, esteem nurse practitioners highly.

From The Daily Beast

Clearly, this is not the near-death experience we typically hear about.

From The Daily Beast