agonizing

adj
/ˈæɡ.ə.naɪ.zɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. Causing physical or mental agony.

    • It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.
  2. present participle and gerund of agonize

  3. The act of one who agonizes.

    • I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

5 hops · closes at agonizing

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

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