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leaning

noun
/ˈliːnɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English lening, leninge, from Old English hlinung (“leaning; resting; place of rest”), equivalent to lean + -ing.

  1. inherited from hlinung — “leaning; resting; place of rest”
  2. inherited from lening

Definitions

  1. A tendency or propensity.

    • a man of socialist leanings

  2. present participle and gerund of lean

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at leaning. 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 leaning. 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 leaning

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