blasphemy

noun
/ˈblæs.fə.mi/

Etymology

From Middle English blasfemie, from Old French blasfemie, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasphēmia, from Ancient Greek βλασφημία (blasphēmía, “profanity”), from βλασφημέω (blasphēméō, “to slander”).

  1. derived from βλασφημία
  2. derived from blasphēmia
  3. derived from blasfemie
  4. inherited from blasfemie

Definitions

  1. An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred

    An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act, utterance, view, etc.

    • That imam said that drawing the prophet Muhammad was a form of blasphemy.
    • Had God cancelled His everlasting Covenant with Israel? The mere thought was blasphemy! But what did God's silence and the present dark cloud mean?
    • Look, I don't think it ought to be blasphemy, just saying "Jehovah".
  2. An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable

    An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable; the act of disregarding a convention.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

5 hops · closes at blasphemy

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