I'm looking for a synonym for observee, i.e. something that is observed. The word observee doesn't seem be used much, so I would like to have a more common word if it exists.
I need to use it in a very abstract sense, so my example sentence doesn't get more concrete than this: "The observer watched the observee very closely."
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You may be able to reuse some terminology from software world here.
There is a standard software design pattern called Observer and its terminology may help. Quoting wikipedia:
Also there is a Observable interface which may be implemented by observable objects. Quoting its description:
[I know subject was a previous answer but I think this was too long as a comment.]