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contactee meaning

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WContactee
  • Contactees are persons who claim to have experienced contact with extraterrestrials. Contactees have typically reported that they were given messages or profound wisdom by extraterrestrial beings.
  • As a cultural phenomenon, contactees perhaps had their greatest notoriety from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, but individuals continue to make similar claims in the present.
  • The contactee movement has seen serious attention from academics and mainstream scholars. Among the earliest was the classic 1956 study, When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, which analyzed the phenomenon.
FR contactée
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    1. Morphemes
      • Suffixes
        • Words by suffix
          • Words suffixed with -ee
      • Nouns
        • Countable nouns
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      Meaning of contactee for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "contactee" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
      Definiteness: Level 1
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