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actively

adv
/ˈæktɪvli/

Etymology

From late Middle English actyvely; equivalent to active + -ly.

  1. inherited from actyvely

Definitions

  1. In an active manner.

    • He was actively listening.
    • She was actively working, not “sleeping on the job”.
    • Defying this, Western queer culture actively defuses from cisnormative values, yet in so doing may also fuse with their new, queernormative value constructs.

  2. In the active form

    In the active form; not passive.

    • a word used actively

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at actively. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at actively. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at actively

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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