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comforting

adj
/ˈkʌm.fɚ.tɪŋ/US/ˈkʌm.fə.tɪŋ/UK

Definitions

  1. Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.

    • Your comforting words help ease my mind.
    • It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.

  2. present participle and gerund of comfort

  3. The act of giving comfort.

    • Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at comforting. 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.

01comforting02soothing03mollify04ease05discomfort06comfort07consolation08consoling

A definitional loop anchored at comforting. 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 comforting

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