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sameness

noun
/ˈseɪmnəs/US

Etymology

From same + -ness.

  1. derived from *sem-✻
  2. derived from *samanai✻
  3. derived from samen
  4. derived from same
  5. suffixed as sameness — “same + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being the same

    The quality of being the same; identity.

    • However strange it may sound, it always seemed to me […] that Adrian's laughter-filled friendship with Schildknapp had something to do with the sameness of their eye color

  2. The state of being equivalent

    The state of being equivalent; equality.

  3. A tiring lack of variety

    A tiring lack of variety; monotony.

    • […] in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at sameness

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