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two-faced

adj
/ˈtuːˈfeɪst/

Etymology

From two + faced, modelled after earlier English twi-faced.

  1. derived from faciēs
  2. derived from facia
  3. derived from face
  4. inherited from face
  5. suffixed as faced — “face + ed”
  6. formed as two-faced — “two + faced”

Definitions

  1. Having two faces or plane surfaces

  2. Deceitful, duplicitous

  3. Hypocritical

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at two-faced

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