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denotative

adj

Etymology

From Latin dēnotātus + -ive. By surface analysis, denote + -ative.

  1. derived from dēnotātus + -ive

Definitions

  1. That denotes or names

    That denotes or names; designative.

    • There was still no concept of language (arithmetical symbolism, perhaps, is not a language, is not denotative in the same sense as words).

  2. Specific to the primary meaning of a term.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at denotative. 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 denotative. 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 denotative

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