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captivating

adj
/ˈkæptɪveɪtɪŋ/UK/ˈkæptɪveɪtɪŋ/US/ˈkæptɪvæɪtɪŋ/

Etymology

From captivate + -ing.

  1. derived from *kap-<id:seize>✻
  2. derived from captīvus — “captive, prisoner”
  3. learned borrowing from captīvātus
  4. suffixed as captivating — “captivate + ing”

Definitions

  1. That captivates

    That captivates; fascinating.

  2. Very beautiful or attractive.

    • [T]he eye is delighted by a continual succession of small landscapes of captivating loveliness.

  3. present participle and gerund of captivate

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at captivating

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