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sensemaking

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense Old English macung Middle English making English making English sensemaking From sense + making.

  1. derived from sense English sense Old English macung Middle English making English making English sensemaking From sense + making
  2. derived from *sennus Old French sensbor✻
  3. derived from *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor✻
  4. derived from *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor✻
  5. derived from *sent-der✻

Definitions

  1. The process by which people give meaning to experience.

    • Because they can in fact set the stage for ongoing sensemaking efforts, its best to avoid digging holes of mis-messaging that only get harder to overcome with time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sensemaking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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