believing

verb
/bɪˈliː.vɪŋ/UK/bɪˈli.vɪŋ/US

Etymology

From Middle English bilevyng, belevand, bileveand, belefand, from Old English *belēfende, ġelīfende, ġelȳfende. Equivalent to believe + -ing.

  1. inherited from *belēfende
  2. inherited from bilevyng

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of believe

  2. The act or process of having faith, trust, or confidence in.

  3. 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.

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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.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA