utterer vs informant

informant vs utterer

utterer and informant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
utterer	Yes	No	No	No
informant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, informant is a hyponym of utterer; that is, informant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than utterer:

utterer: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
informant: someone who sees an event and reports what happened

Other hyponyms of utterer include alliterator, caller-up, caller, phoner, telephoner, babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter, conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer, dictator, drawler, driveller, jabberer, ejaculator, growler, asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner, lecturer, lisper, mentioner, motormouth, mumbler, murmurer, mutterer, narrator, storyteller, teller, orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker, prattler, ranter, raver, reciter, native speaker, stammerer, stutterer, stentor, talking head, venter, vociferator, voicer, wailer, whisperer, witness, witnesser.

utterer (noun)	informant (noun)
someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)	a person who supplies information
someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins	someone who sees an event and reports what happened
an organism that can utter vocal sounds

Difference between utterer and informant

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