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engrossing

adj
/ɛnˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/UK/ɛnˈɡɹoʊsɪŋ/US

Definitions

  1. Utterly consuming one's time and attention.

    • an engrossing documentary
    • The good news about “The Silence” is that it’s engrossing and that, at 83, DeLillo’s syntax is as prickly as ever.

  2. present participle and gerund of engross

  3. The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at engrossing. 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.

01engrossing02wholesale03retailers04retailer05retail06advertising07customers08customer09engaging

A definitional loop anchored at engrossing. 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 engrossing

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