perplexity

noun
/pəˈplɛksɪti/UK/pəɹˈplɛksəti/US

Etymology

From Middle English perplexite, borrowed from Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitās, from perplexus (“entangled”). By surface analysis, perplex + -ity.

  1. derived from perplexitās
  2. derived from perplexité
  3. inherited from perplexite

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being perplexed.

  2. Something that perplexes.

    • The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.
  3. A measure of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at perplexity

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

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