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homesickness

noun

Etymology

Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), equivalent to home + sickness.

  1. inherited from sēocnes
  2. inherited from sikness
  3. formed as homesickness — “home + sickness”

Definitions

  1. The characteristic of being homesick

    The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

9 hops · closes at homesickness

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

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