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nounsignalee (plural signalees)
plural signalees
- rareThe person toward whom a signal is directed.
Simple, economically rare emblems with messages, such as “I am fit, strong and morally good” were unable to evolve because a naive, untested acceptance of socially motivated information would be highly risky for signalees, since the interests of signaler and signalee are not identical.
2013, Eckart Voland, Karl Grammer, Evolutionary Aesthetics, page 253
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