artificially

adv

Etymology

From artificial + -ly.

  1. derived from artificiālis
  2. inherited from artificial
  3. formed as artificially — “artificial + -ly

Definitions

  1. In an artificial manner.

    • The actor spoke his lines artificially, with too much intonation.
  2. By or because of human effort.

    • The chocolate was flavoured artificially.
    • This lake had been artificially made by the damming up of the stream that had previously wasted itself unornamentally, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at artificially

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

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