Experiencer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who experiences.
- 2 A person who has had a close encounter.
"So after the first few emails with certain of them, I got an introduction from an experiencer to a person who I met at a conference, which was an American Academy of Religion conference. […] And I got insight into the lives that they led, and I became convinced that the government was definitely doing something related to this."
- 3 A thematic relation where something undergoes a situation or sensation lacking a semantic agent.
"The subjects of the intransitive verbs "fall" and "burn" are experiencers."
Example
More examples"So after the first few emails with certain of them, I got an introduction from an experiencer to a person who I met at a conference, which was an American Academy of Religion conference. […] And I got insight into the lives that they led, and I became convinced that the government was definitely doing something related to this."
Etymology
From experience + -er.
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