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violence

noun
/ˈvaɪ.(ə.)ləns/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s Proto-Italic *wīs Latin vīs Latin violēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin violentiabor. Old French violencebor. Middle English violence English violence Inherited from Middle English violence, borrowed from Old French violence, borrowed from Latin violentia, from violēns (“violent”) + -ia. See violent. Displaced native Old English stræc.

  1. derived from stræc
  2. derived from violentia
  3. derived from violence
  4. derived from violencebor
  5. derived from *wéyh₁s Proto-Italic *wīs Latin vīs Latin violēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin violentiabor✻
  6. derived from *weyh₁-der✻

Definitions

  1. Extreme force.

    • The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.

  2. Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering.

    • We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts.
    • There is nothing unique or magical about the Middle East; it shares xenophobias and violences with all the rest of the world!

  3. Widespread fighting.

    • Violence between the government and the rebels continues.
    • But by the early 2000s, we were seeing fewer games like DOOM that dealt in the fantasia of ultraviolence and more games that tried to replicate the everyday violence of military encounters.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Injustice, wrong.

      • The translation does violence to the original novel.
      • Racism, classism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism are also wicked problems of structural violence […]

    2. To subject to violence.

      • And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.
      • He physically violenced my mother, physically violenced me and my brothers, and was sexually abusive to me until I was in second grade.

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Derived

choose violence, do violence to, I choose violence, intimate partner violence, male-pattern violence, male pattern violence, non-violence, police violence, pornoviolence, self-violence, sexual violence, silence is violence, spiritual violence, ultraviolence, violence-ridden

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at violence. 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 violence. 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 violence

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