Considerer

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person engaging in thoughtful analysis and reflection regarding choices and their potential impacts tends to act with deliberation
2. An individual who gives careful thought and attention to options before making a decision
3. One who contemplates or evaluates different possibilities with attention and caution prior to acting

Etymology: The agent suffix "-er" that turns "consider" into "considerer" has a longer ancestry than most English speakers would guess. Its earliest form, reconstructed for Proto-Italic, was "-āsios," and it passed into Latin as "-ārius," a suffix that marked a person connected with something, such as a "librarius" connected with books. From Latin it moved into Old French as "-ier," and Middle English took it in as "-er." Meanwhile, the same ending had already arrived in Old English as "-ere," so English speakers were using the suffix on native words long before the French form reinforced it. "Consider" itself comes from Latin "considerare," a verb that originally referred to observing the stars, and the "-er" was attached to it in English. The result is a word that names a person who weighs possibilities carefully before acting, combining a Latin-derived verb with a suffix that English had been adding to native stems for centuries.

Synonyms: thinker, ponderer, reflector, examiner, reviewer

Antonyms: disregarder, neglector, ignorer, overlooked, dismissive