experiencer
- noun
- /ɪkˈspɪəriːənser/
- Regarding openness to experience, we predicted that experiencers would have particularly high openness to experience scores.
- experiencers were particularly
Examples
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Marginal support was obtained for these hypotheses, as experiencers were indeed particularly open to experience.
Academic text (2006) -
In all other cases, Quentin shows himself as the experiencer of a process.
Academic text (1990) -
Experience in which the person was asked by the Light which religious form the experiencer was comfortable with.
Blog text (25) -
At some point after arriving at the "other side," the experiencer is offered an invitation to stay.
Academic text (1994) -
Other experiencers may describe a domain that has no parallel to any known physical setting.
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In many accounts, the experiencer correlates the astral world with the world of dreams.
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For Dewey, qualities are experienced; they require an experiencer, but they do not belong to consciousness.
Academic text (2016) -
In several EHEs, the experiencer feels part of a meaningful process that is inherently purposeful.
Academic text (1995) -
In the current investigation, we expect that experiencers, i.e., those loose with money but not materialistic, would be particularly high in sensation seeking and openness to experience.
Academic text (2006) -
In her travel blog, the author describes herself as an experiencer who embraces different cultures.
Synonyms
A person who notices things using their senses
A person who directly takes part in an event
A person or thing affected by an action
Surface Forms
Morphology
experiencer = experience (transparent) = experience + er
Standard agentive formation from the verb 'experience' meaning 'one who experiences'; meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
Experiencer comes from experience, which comes from a word meaning 'to try' or 'to test', the same idea you see in experiment. So an experiencer is someone who 'goes through' or 'has' something and feels it.