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calamity

noun
/kəˈlæmɪti/

Etymology

From Middle French calamité, from Latin calamitās (“loss, damage; disaster”).

  1. derived from calamitās
  2. borrowed from calamité

Definitions

  1. An event resulting in great loss.

    • Romeo come forth / Come forth thou fearfull man, / Affliction is enamor’d of thy parts: / And thou art wedded to calamitie.
    • Yet, at that moment, she felt as if the acquisition of these gems were a calamity. Their possession involved separation from her uncle, from every relic of home affections, and from all that yet lingered with her of her childhood.
    • And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures. A calamity had come to it, sure enough.

  2. The distress that results from some disaster.

The neighborhood

Derived

calamitist, calamity howler, fiscalamity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at calamity. 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.

01calamity02loss03longer04yearns05yearn06sympathy07sorrow08woe

A definitional loop anchored at calamity. 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 calamity

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