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self-explanatory

adj

Etymology

From self- + explanatory.

  1. borrowed from explānātōrius
  2. prefixed as self-explanatory — “self + explanatory”

Definitions

  1. Obvious, having a nature that makes it clear or that explains itself.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at self-explanatory. 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 self-explanatory. 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 self-explanatory

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