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hypersentence

noun

Etymology

From hyper- + sentence.

  1. derived from *sent-✻
  2. derived from sententia
  3. borrowed from sentence
  4. prefixed as hypersentence — “hyper + sentence”

Definitions

  1. An implicit sentence containing an explicit sentence.

    • The sentence “Hand me that” may be said to entail the hypersentence “I'm telling you to hand me that.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hypersentence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA