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readiness

noun
/ˈɹɛdinəs/

Etymology

From ready + -ness.

  1. derived from *reydʰ-✻
  2. derived from *h₂reh₁dʰ-✻
  3. inherited from *garaidijaz✻
  4. inherited from rǣde
  5. inherited from redy
  6. suffixed as readiness — “ready + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or degree of being ready

    The state or degree of being ready; preparedness.

    • readiness for civil emergencies
    • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

  2. Willingness.

    • his readiness to help
    • It was a long, enduring scream — one that would send her back into a time and into a childhood which had been forgotten with the readiness that we forget unpleasant moments in our lives.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at readiness. 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 readiness. 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 readiness

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