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discursive

adj
/dɪsˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French discursif, formed from the stem of Latin discursus and the suffix -if, and in part borrowed from Medieval Latin discursivus. By surface analysis, discourse + -ive.

  1. derived from discursivus
  2. derived from discursus
  3. borrowed from discursif

Definitions

  1. Of or concerning discourse.

    • This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.

The neighborhood

Derived

antidiscursive, counterdiscursive, cyberdiscursive, discursively, discursiveness, discursivity, interdiscursive, macrodiscursive, metadiscursive, microdiscursive, nondiscursive, transdiscursive, undiscursive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at discursive. 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 discursive. 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 discursive

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