recursiveness

/rɪˈkɜrsɪvnəs/
noun
  1. The quality of being recursive; the property of a process or definition that refers to itself.
    • The recursiveness of the fractal pattern creates infinite detail.
    • Linguists study the recursiveness of grammar rules in human language.
    • The recursiveness of the algorithm makes it elegant but hard to debug.
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