visible

adj
/ˈvɪzɪb(ə)l/

Etymology

From Middle English visible, from Old French visible, from Late Latin visibilis (“that may be seen”), from Latin videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see vision. Displaced native Old English ġesewenlīċ.

  1. derived from videre
  2. derived from visibilis
  3. derived from visible
  4. inherited from visible

Definitions

  1. Able to be seen.

    • When the sun rises, the world becomes visible.
    • Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at visible

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