experimentation

noun2

1. •
   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. — 2023
2. •
   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. — 2012