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sufficiently

adv
/səˈfɪʃəntli/

Etymology

From sufficient + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In a sufficient manner

    In a sufficient manner; enough.

    • Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we went to bed.
    • I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.

  2. To a sufficient extent.

    • We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.
    • There are those who value a seat sufficiently highly that they prefer to make their daily journeys by the Western Region Vine Street line.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sufficiently. 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 sufficiently. 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 sufficiently

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

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