brightness
nounEtymology
From Middle English bryghtnes, brightnesse, from Old English beorhtnes (“brightness, splendor”), from Proto-West Germanic *berhtnassī, equivalent to bright + -ness. Cognate with Old High German berahtnessī, berahtnessi (“brightness”).
- inherited from *berhtnassī✻
- inherited from bryghtnes
Definitions
The quality of being bright.
The perceived luminance of an object.
Intelligence, cleverness.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at brightness. 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 brightness. 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 brightness
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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