believing
verbEtymology
From Middle English bilevyng, belevand, bileveand, belefand, from Old English *belēfende, ġelīfende, ġelȳfende. Equivalent to believe + -ing.
- inherited from *belēfende✻
- inherited from bilevyng
Definitions
present participle and gerund of believe
The act or process of having faith, trust, or confidence in.
Belief.
- Some believings are believings with simple certainty; others are more or less uncertain; still others are believings with a reassured certainty, perhaps after a time during which they were uncertain.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at believing. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at believing. 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 believing
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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