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lifelike

adj
/ˈlaɪflaɪk/

Etymology

From life + -like.

  1. derived from *leyp-✻ — “to stick, glue”
  2. inherited from *lībą✻ — “life, body”
  3. inherited from *līb✻
  4. inherited from līf
  5. inherited from lyf
  6. suffixed as lifelike — “life + like”

Definitions

  1. Like a living being, resembling life, giving an accurate representation

    • a lifelike portrait
    • The robot was so lifelike, Jack could hardly tell it apart from his sister.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lifelike. 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 lifelike. 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 lifelike

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