Headful

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun

1
An amount of information, emotion, etc. present in the mind.
"The headful of stories you gather over a lifetime lets you refold the time and space of your history into meaningful, tellable patterns."
2
a covering over the surface of your head wordnet
3
the quantity of information that a head will hold wordnet

Adjective

1
That fills the head of a phage not-comparable

Example

"The headful of stories you gather over a lifetime lets you refold the time and space of your history into meaningful, tellable patterns."

Etymology

From head + -ful.

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