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forgetful

adj
/fərˈɡɛtfəl/

Etymology

From Middle English *forgetful, *forȝetful (suggested by derivative forgetfulnesse, forȝetfulnesse (“forgetfulness”)), equivalent to forget + -ful.

  1. inherited from *forgetful✻

Definitions

  1. Unable to remember things well

    Unable to remember things well; liable to forget.

  2. Dropping some of the input's structure or properties before producing an output.

    • a forgetful mapping; a forgetful functor

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at forgetful. 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 forgetful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at forgetful

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