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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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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 ...
