ingrained

adj

Etymology

From ingrain + -ed.

  1. inherited from engreynen
  2. suffixed as ingrained — “ingrain + ed

Definitions

  1. Being an element

    Being an element; present in the essence of a thing

    • But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
  2. Fixed, established

  3. simple past and past participle of ingrain

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ingrained. 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.

01ingrained02fixed03unable04course05along06onward07forward08situated09rooted

A definitional loop anchored at ingrained. 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 ingrained

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

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