Talk:incessive

RFV discussion: December 2017

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incessive

1. "Moving, intense and active."
2. "Fierce; cruel and aggressive."

I don't find this in any OneLook reference or in Century. The usage I find would suggest "incessant", perhaps relentless", as definitions. There might be some linguistic definitions too, something like "(linguistics, of an aspect) ~continuative" and "(linguistics, of a case) indicating location within" or "misspelling of inessive".

OED, anyone? DCDuring (talk) 16:00, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

I have cited those two definitions, as well as adding the more common definitions that you picked up on. Kiwima (talk) 22:59, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Is the »Insightful; deep and succinct« sense not just a misspelling of incisive? — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 18:00, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Possibly, but unclear. The term incisive does not usually have the connotation of succinct, but incessive clearly does in some of the quotes I found. Kiwima (talk) 22:27, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm also having trouble with the wording of the two definitions in question.

Is the first intended to be:

1. three synonyms (They don't seems like synoyms to me.)
2. "Intense and active moving" (which doesn't seem adjectival)
3. two synonyms, to wit, "moving" (what sense?) and "intense and active" (They don't seem like synonyms to me.)

For the second, "fierce" and "cruel and aggressive" don't seem synonymous.

Perhaps I should have sent this to RfC instead of RfV. DCDuring (talk) 01:31, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 09:10, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

References for this word

The OneLook dictionary search gives "Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the word incessive." and the Century pages don't have the word either. It doesn't appear in other major dictionary sites like Cambridge's, Oxford's and Merriam-Webster. Does this word really have attested usages equivalent to "incessant" and "incisive"? The given quotes seem like one-off misusages. How was the word confirmed during verification?

It is etymologically hard to believe that the alt form of (grammatical) inessive isn't an error too. Equinox ◑ 15:42, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

It just looks like multiple spelling mistakes to me. Nothing in the OED. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:44, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, just saw this entry again. Another one: "continual; unceasing" just seems like a subliterate error for incessant. Equinox ◑ 06:17, 8 November 2019 (UTC)