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craftiness

noun

Etymology

From crafty + -ness.

  1. inherited from *kraftugaz✻ — “powerful”
  2. inherited from *kraftag✻
  3. inherited from cræftiġ — “ingenious; skilful; crafty; cunning; virtuous; powerful”
  4. inherited from crafty
  5. suffixed as craftiness — “crafty + ness”

Definitions

  1. Skill in deception, slyness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at craftiness. 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 craftiness. 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 craftiness

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