experimentation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

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

2. (countable, uncountable)A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.

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