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respectability

noun
/ɹɪˌspɛktəˈbɪlɪti/

Etymology

From respect + -ability.

  1. derived from respectus
  2. derived from respect
  3. inherited from respect
  4. suffixed as respectability — “respect + ability”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being respectable.

    • Though he knew it not, the subtle spirit of vagabondage had taken possession of his soul, and even of his hat, which seemed suddenly to have lost its original respectability, and acquired an air of dissoluteness.

  2. The class of respectable people.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at respectability. 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.

01respectability02respectable03respect04honor05dignity06stateliness07stately08dignified

A definitional loop anchored at respectability. 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 respectability

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