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What is a person who hallucinates called? [closed]
What do you call a person who sees illusions or hallucinates?
Crazy?
Hallucinator? (Is this even a word?)
Insane?
Freak?
Something else?
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What word would best be used to describe an entity that “cancels” something?
I am writing some code for an application that initiates an asynchronous action and returns an object that can be used to cancel the action before completion.
However, I am having difficulty naming ...
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Is there a word for something that gets “acted upon”?
For instance, say I have two individuals and one is active, the other passive. I know I can call the active person the "actor"—he "acts upon" the passive person. But what do I call the "acted upon"? ...
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A word for “one who tames wild animals”
I want to know a single word that conveys this meaning "one who tames wild animals".
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Forming occupational nouns: Why do you say “butcher” and not “butchian” or “butchor”?
Question: Occupational nouns (butcher, sailor, musician, etc.) have various suffixes in English (er, or, ee, ant, etc.). Is there a set of rules to form occupational nouns from the verbs or their ...
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How can one determine if the opposite of an agent noun exists?
We know that the employer employs the employee and that the tutor tutors the tutee, but how do we know if the shooter shot the shootee?
Is there a simple way to determine if an agent noun can be made ...
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What is the opposite of an agent noun?
Is there a simple phrase to describe the object of an agent noun performing an action?
The adviser helped the advisee.
The employer fired the employee.
Is there a phrase similar to "agent ...
