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softness

noun
/ˈsɔftnəs/US/ˈsɑftnəs//ˈsɒftnəs/UK

Etymology

From Middle English softnesse, from Old English sōftnes, alteration of earlier sēftnes. Equivalent to soft + -ness.

  1. inherited from sōftnes
  2. inherited from softnesse

Definitions

  1. The quality of being soft.

    • […] the informal dressers, with their "divided skirts" and stealthy advances towards confessed trouserdom, are the strong-minded sisterhood, to whom the softnesses of sex are abominations […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at softness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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