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enormously

adv

Etymology

From enormous + -ly.

  1. derived from ēnormis
  2. suffixed as enormously — “enormous + -ly”

Definitions

  1. Extremely, greatly

    Extremely, greatly: to an enormous degree.

    • Gloria is enormously pleased with our progress.
    • He was enormously popular.
    • Fraser Hunter, iron age and Roman curator at NMS and a leading authority on carnyces, described the new find as “extraordinary” and said it would “add enormously to our understanding of the iron age world.

  2. Shockingly.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at enormously. 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 enormously. 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 enormously

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

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