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impropriety

noun
/ˌɪm.pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ɪ.ti/

Etymology

From French impropriété, from Latin improprietās. By surface analysis, improper + -iety or im- + propriety.

  1. derived from proprietās
  2. derived from proprieté
  3. derived from propreté
  4. inherited from proprietee
  5. formed as impropriety — “im- + propriety”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being improper.

    • If so many ladies of rank wrote books, there could be no impropriety in her following their example,...
    • To see the impropriety of this noninformative prior, note that the posterior results (2.19)–(2.22) can be justified by as [sic] combining the likelihood function with the following ‘prior density’: […]

  2. An improper act.

  3. Improper language.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at impropriety. 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 impropriety. 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 impropriety

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