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hypothetically

adv

Etymology

From hypothetical + -ly.

  1. derived from ὑποθετικός
  2. formed as hypothetically — “hypothetical + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a hypothetical way

    In a hypothetical way; as a hypothesis.

    • He offered the proposition hypothetically.
    • Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed Sunday that the President hypothetically could have shot the former FBI director to end the Russia investigation and not face prosecution for it while in office.

  2. Used to introduce a proposition to discussion without commitment to its truth.

    • Hypothetically, what would you say if I proposed marriage to you?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hypothetically. 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 hypothetically. 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 hypothetically

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