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debasement

noun
/dɪˈbeɪsmənt/

Etymology

From debase + -ment.

  1. derived from bassus
  2. derived from bas
  3. suffixed as debasement — “debase + ment”

Definitions

  1. The act of debasing or the state of being debased

    The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering or degradation, especially in character or quality.

    • She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses.
    • There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt.

  2. The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the…

    The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at debasement. 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 debasement. 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 debasement

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