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Behaver vs Doer - What's the difference?

behaver | doer |

As nouns the difference between behaver and doer

is that behaver is someone or something that behaves while doer is someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.

behaver

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone or something that behaves.
  • (psychology) An individual whose behaviour is being monitored or studied.

    • doer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, page 295:
    • Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].
  • * 2008 , Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian , 25 Mar 2008:
    • In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * be-er

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns ----