slyness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English slynesse. By surface analysis, sly + -ness.

  1. inherited from slynesse

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being sly.

    • With his natural slyness, he was able to talk his way out of trouble.
  2. The result or product of being sly.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at slyness. 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 slyness. 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 slyness

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