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unsettling

adj

Definitions

  1. That makes one troubled or uneasy

    That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

    • More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt[…]

  2. present participle and gerund of unsettle

  3. The weakening of some previously established system or norm.

    • But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unsettling. 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.

01unsettling02troubled03worried04worry05peace06quiet07disturbing

A definitional loop anchored at unsettling. 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 unsettling

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

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