near-death experience

1. 1.

   the experience of being close to death but surviving

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Questions about near-death experience

What does near-death experience mean?

near-death experience means "the experience of being close to death but surviving".

Is near-death experience a common word?

near-death experience is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.