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closeness

noun
/ˈkləʊs.nəs/UK/ˈkloʊs.nəs/US/ˈkləʉs.nəs/

Etymology

From close + -ness.

  1. derived from *kleh₂w-✻
  2. derived from clausus
  3. derived from clos
  4. inherited from clos — “close, shut up, confined, secret”
  5. inherited from clȳsan
  6. inherited from clusen — “to close”
  7. inherited from closen
  8. suffixed as closeness — “close + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being close (all senses).

  2. The state of being friends.

  3. The state of being mean or stingy.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The state of being secretive.

    2. The shortest path between two vertices in a graph.

    3. Solitude, seclusion.

      • I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated / To closeness and the bettering of my mind [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at closeness. 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 closeness. 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 closeness

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