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giddiness

noun

Etymology

From giddy + -ness.

  1. inherited from *gudīg✻ — “ghostly, spirited”
  2. inherited from gidiġ
  3. inherited from gidi
  4. suffixed as giddiness — “giddy + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being giddy.

    • Mr. Lorry, you cannot control the mincing vanities and giddinesses of empty-headed girls; you must not expect to do it, or you will always be disappointed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

5 hops · closes at giddiness

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