excellence

noun
/ˈɛksələns/

Etymology

From Middle English excellence, from Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia.

  1. derived from excellence
  2. inherited from excellence

Definitions

  1. The quality of being excellent

    The quality of being excellent; brilliance

    • John Davies was awarded for excellence in the field of computer security.
  2. Something in which one excels.

  3. An excellent or valuable quality

    An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A title of honor or respect

      A title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at excellence. 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 excellence. 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 excellence

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