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-ception

suffix

Etymology

Rebracketing of inception coined with reference to the 2010 science fiction film of the same title, the plot of which involves a team of people infiltrating someone's subconscious mind, proceeding through several layers of dreams in the process.

Definitions

  1. Neural reception.

  2. Combined with a noun to indicate a layering, nesting, or recursion of the referent.

    • Adapted from David Mitchell's novel of the same name, Cloud Atlas is a story-ception; a post apocalyptic campfire story about a guy watching a movie in which someone reads a novel whose main character follows a series of letters.
    • Playception: Each actor must portray a character playing another character.
    • Seen any horrendous foodceptions you just can't wrap your head around (like pasta burritos)?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ception. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA