embellishment

noun
/ɪmˈbɛlɪʃmənt/

Etymology

From embellish + -ment.

  1. derived from embellir
  2. inherited from embelishen
  3. suffixed as embellishment — “embellish + ment

Definitions

  1. An act of embellishing.

  2. An added touch

    An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at embellishment. 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 embellishment. 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 embellishment

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