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tartness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English *tartnesse, from Old English teartnes (“sharpness, severity, asperity”), equivalent to tart + -ness.

  1. inherited from teartnes — “sharpness, severity, asperity”
  2. inherited from *tartnesse✻

Definitions

  1. The characteristic of being tart

    The characteristic of being tart; sharpness of taste.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

6 hops · closes at tartness

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

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