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decorum

noun
/dɪˈkɔːɹəm/UK/ɖɪˈkorəm/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin decōrum, neuter form of decōrus (“proper, decent”).

  1. learned borrowing from decōrum

Definitions

  1. Appropriate social behavior.

    • It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.

  2. A convention of social behavior.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at decorum. 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 decorum. 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 decorum

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