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barbarity

noun
/bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪti/

Definitions

  1. The state of being barbarous

    The state of being barbarous; brutality

  2. A barbaric act

    • As regards barbarities committed by the Japanese army since our war of resistance, the fall of Nanking in December 1937 is a case in point. Over 200,000 civilians were massacred within one week.

  3. crudity

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A crude act

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at barbarity. 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 barbarity. 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 barbarity

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

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