evident

adj
/ˈɛv.ɪ.dənt/UK/ˈɛv.ə.dənt/US

Etymology

From Middle English evident, from Old French evident, from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol.

  1. derived from ēvidēns
  2. derived from evident
  3. inherited from evident

Definitions

  1. Obviously true by simple observation.

    • It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.
    • Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at evident. 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 evident. 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 evident

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

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