Dictionary

experiencer en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English experience Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English experiencer From experience + -er.

Meanings

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. 2025 July 24, Ross Douthat, quoting Diana Walsh Pasulka, “What if the Government Believes in U.F.O.s More Than You Do?”, in The New York Times:
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.

Forms

Deriveds

NDEer · UFOer

Translations (1)

es experimentante (linguistics: thematic relation)