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unanswerable

adj
/ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/UK

Etymology

From un- + answerable.

  1. derived from *andaswarō✻
  2. derived from *swer-✻
  3. derived from swerian
  4. derived from *h₂ent-✻
  5. inherited from andswaru
  6. inherited from answere
  7. suffixed as answerable — “answer + able”
  8. formed as unanswerable — “un- + answerable”

Definitions

  1. Not answerable

    Not answerable; impossible to answer.

  2. Impossible to dispute or rebut

    Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.

    • The map is never an unanswerable argument in transportation.

  3. Something that cannot be answered.

    • These unanswerables are left open to the viewer's own construction by the sculptor.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unanswerable. 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 unanswerable. 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 unanswerable

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

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