indulgent

adj
/ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒənt/

Etymology

From Latin indulgēns, indulgentem, present participle of indulgēre.

  1. borrowed from indulgēns

Definitions

  1. Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires,…

    Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing.

    • an indulgent parent
    • to be indulgent to servants
    • An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at indulgent

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

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