experimentation

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.countableuncountable

• When we situate climax during intercourse as the bullseye, we gate off the idiosyncrasy and experimentation that are the wellspring of sexual pleasure.

A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.countableuncountable

• As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.