attributee

English

Etymology

From attribute +‎ -ee.

Noun

attributee (plural attributees)

1. That to which something is attributed; a target of attribution.
   • 2006 November 22, Arvid Båve, “A pragmatic defense of Millianism”, in Philosophical Studies, →DOI:

     I follow Salmon ( 1989 ) in taking what is pragmatically communicated here to be about linguistic expressions, but avoid the notion of guise of belief in favor of unproblematic general beliefs of the attributee.