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conducive

adj
/kənˈdjuːsɪv/UK/kənˈdusɪv/CA/kənˈdjʉːsɪv/

Etymology

From conduce + -ive, 1640s, from Latin condūcere, patterned after forms like conductive.

  1. derived from condūcere

Definitions

  1. Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.

    • A small, dark kitchen is not conducive to elaborate cooking.
    • According to the Roman Pliny the Elder, author of Historia Naturalis, southernwood was conducive to sexual excitement when the plant was placed under the bed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at conducive. 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 conducive. 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 conducive

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