see-er
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Firſt in that Pow’r [to whoſe eternal thought / No outward object e’er one image brought, / The part, the whole, the ſee-er and the ſeen, / No diſtance, inference, or act between:] / Reason preſides, diffuſing thence abroad / Thro’ truth, thro’ things—the Teſt, the Point of God."
- "Little groups of men and women […] occasionally raise their shrill clamor for a new party. It seems so easy to them to create one out of hand, and to make it perfect from the start. It would contain, by definition, all the forward-looking, all the true lovers of liberty, all the sympathetic spirits that call upon the rest to make sacrifices for the common good, all the dreamers of dreams and see-ers of visions."
- "‘Seeing everything as Mind itself’ means rather ‘As Mind itself, seeing everything’: it is a displacement of the see-er from being a see-er of pseudo-objects to being ‘Mind itself’. The see-er was an object himself, and so a pseudo-see-er."
- "And, moreover, the way of seeing, whatever it was, would never be individual or idiosyncratic, since its source would always be the institutional structure of which the “see-er” was an extending agent."
- "The discovery of poornatvam lies in understanding the difference between the seen and the see-er. The seen and the see-er concept is beautifully explained by Adi Sankara’s Drig Drishya Viveka. / Seen and See-er Concept / “Let us suppose that there is a pot before us. It is seen and I am the see-er. I see it with my eye, and therefore the eye is the see-er.[…]”"
- "A person who flees is a fleer, and a person who sees is a seer (though to avoid confusion with seer meaning `foreteller', the forms see-er and seeër have been used)."