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detriment

noun
/ˈdɛtɹɪmənt/

Etymology

From Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum (“loss, damage, literally a rubbing off”), from dēterere (“to rub off, wear”), from dē- (“down, away”) + terere (“to rub”). Detriment is related to the word detritus, and built on similar foundations to the word impediment.

  1. derived from detrimentum
  2. derived from detriement

Definitions

  1. Harm, hurt, damage.

    • "Would it be fair to say that when it came to making trouble, you'd make up for what you didn't absolutely know . . . and to our detriment?"
    • “There’s far more evidence for coffee’s benefits than harms,” Dr. Cryer said — which is something worth keeping in mind, he added, while you scroll through social media stories that profess the brew’s detriments.

  2. A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.

  3. The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered…

    The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.

    • Saturn, Jupiter and Mars from their conjunction to their opposition with the Sun are Oriental, and gain two fortitudes; but from their Opposition to their Conjunction are occidental, and incur two detriments.
    • DEJECTION [with Astrol.] said of the planets, when in their detriment, i.e. when they have lost their force or influence by reason of being in opposition to some other, which check and contract them.
    • This is infallible : Saturn out of all Dignities in his Detriment and Fall, combust : and Venus in the South-angle elevated above him, Lady of both their Nativities, in her essential and accidental Dignities; occidental from the[…]
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).

      • Argent, a Moon in her detriment or Eclipse Sable[…]
      • Moon in its Detriment, or Wane
      • Argent; a Moon in her detriment, Sable. This word is used in heraldry to denote her being eclipsed.

    2. To be detrimental to

      To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.

The neighborhood

Derived

anti-detriment, detrimental

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at detriment. 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 detriment. 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 detriment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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