experiencer

English

Etymology

From experience +‎ -er.

Noun

experiencer (plural experiencers)

  1. A person who experiences.
  2. (ufology) A person who has had a close encounter.
    • 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[1]:
      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. (linguistics) 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.

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