appraisal

noun
/əˈpɹeɪzəl/

Etymology

From appraise + -al.

  1. derived from pretium
  2. derived from appretio
  3. derived from aprisier
  4. inherited from apreisen
  5. suffixed as appraisal — “appraise + al

Definitions

  1. The act or process of developing an opinion of value.

    • She hated that silent appraisal, watching someone compare her to a version that she might have been.
  2. A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at appraisal. 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 appraisal. 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 appraisal

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