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attainment

noun
/əˈteɪnmənt/

Etymology

From attain + -ment; compare Old French ataignement.

  1. derived from *teh₂g-✻ — “to grasp; to touch”
  2. derived from attingere
  3. derived from *attangere✻
  4. derived from ataindre
  5. derived from ataindre
  6. inherited from atteinen
  7. formed as attainment — “attain + -ment”

Definitions

  1. The act of attaining

    The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by effort or exertion.

    • My attainment of proficiency in German was due to years upon years of study.

  2. That which is attained, or obtained by exertion.

    • The scholar who had made so many attainments, knows now how small they were compared with what one glance into the spiritual glory has taught him.
    • The attainment of the skills of elementary reading occurred some time ago for almost all who read this book.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

9 hops · closes at attainment

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