Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who experiences; one who makes trials or experiments.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who experiences.
  • noun obsolete An experimenter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who experiences.
  • noun linguistics A thematic relation where something undergoes a situation or sensation lacking a semantic agent.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

experience +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Instead of whoring himself out like every other tell-all Roswell "experiencer", Haut held onto his cards for the most meaningful public impact.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • This becomes apparent once you look through a large number of both types of verbs here are complete lists of subject-experiencer and object-experiencer verbs in English.

    Confusing verbs GamesWithWords 2010

  • You Are ... beyond the body-mind and personality, beyond all experience and the experiencer thereof, beyond the world and its perceiver, beyond existence and its absence, beyond all assertions and denials.

    Flower Heads and Grain 2010

  • This becomes apparent once you look through a large number of both types of verbs here are complete lists of subject-experiencer and object-experiencer verbs in English.

    Archive 2010-07-01 GamesWithWords 2010

  • It is beyond all experience and the experiencer thereof.

    Flower Heads and Grain 2010

  • The problem mentioned in the previous post was that there are also subject-experiencer verbs that have participles which can take the "un" prefix, such as "unloved".

    Archive 2010-07-01 GamesWithWords 2010

  • To be completely fair to the theory, the claim that object-experiencer verbs are "weird" (more specifically, that they require syntactic movement) could be still be right (though I don't think it is).

    Archive 2010-07-01 GamesWithWords 2010

  • The problem mentioned in the previous post was that there are also subject-experiencer verbs that have participles which can take the "un" prefix, such as "unloved".

    Confusing verbs GamesWithWords 2010

  • To be completely fair to the theory, the claim that object-experiencer verbs are "weird" (more specifically, that they require syntactic movement) could be still be right (though I don't think it is).

    Confusing verbs GamesWithWords 2010

  • Exciting is in the eye of the experiencer I suppose, so you are of course entitled to that opinion.

    I don't really want to live in interesting times Jes 2009

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