See dark forest hypothesis in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dark",
"3": "forest",
"4": "hypothesis"
},
"expansion": "dark + forest + hypothesis",
"name": "com"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "zh",
"3": "黑暗森林"
},
"expansion": "Chinese 黑暗森林",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Cixin Liu",
"nat": "Chinese",
"occ": "author"
},
"expansion": "Coined by Chinese author Cixin Liu",
"name": "coin"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From dark + forest + hypothesis. From the title of the novel The Dark Forest (2008) (黑暗森林), by Liu Cixin (刘慈欣), from Chinese 黑暗森林, from 黑暗+森林. Coined by Chinese author Cixin Liu originally in Chinese, then translated into English.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "dark forest hypothesis (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Ufology",
"orig": "en:Ufology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "berserker hypothesis"
},
{
"word": "Fermi paradox"
},
{
"word": "Great Filter"
},
{
"word": "grey goo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A proposed explanation for the Fermi paradox that suggests extraterrestrial civilizations are abundant but remain silent and hidden, positing that any intelligent civilization views others as potential threats and thus actively avoids revealing itself."
],
"id": "en-dark_forest_hypothesis-en-noun-XvlrCVGg",
"links": [
[
"SETI",
"SETI"
],
[
"ufology",
"ufology"
],
[
"proposed",
"proposed"
],
[
"explanation",
"explanation"
],
[
"Fermi paradox",
"Fermi paradox"
],
[
"suggest",
"suggest"
],
[
"extraterrestrial",
"extraterrestrial"
],
[
"civilization",
"civilization"
],
[
"abundant",
"abundant"
],
[
"remain",
"remain"
],
[
"silent",
"silent"
],
[
"hidden",
"hidden"
],
[
"posit",
"posit"
],
[
"intelligent",
"intelligent"
],
[
"view",
"view"
],
[
"potential",
"potential"
],
[
"threat",
"threat"
],
[
"actively",
"actively"
],
[
"avoid",
"avoid"
],
[
"reveal",
"reveal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(SETI, ufology) A proposed explanation for the Fermi paradox that suggests extraterrestrial civilizations are abundant but remain silent and hidden, positing that any intelligent civilization views others as potential threats and thus actively avoids revealing itself."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences",
"ufology"
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:The Dark Forest",
"zh:刘慈欣",
"zh:黑暗森林"
]
}
],
"word": "dark forest hypothesis"
}
{
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "berserker hypothesis"
},
{
"word": "Fermi paradox"
},
{
"word": "Great Filter"
},
{
"word": "grey goo"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dark",
"3": "forest",
"4": "hypothesis"
},
"expansion": "dark + forest + hypothesis",
"name": "com"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "zh",
"3": "黑暗森林"
},
"expansion": "Chinese 黑暗森林",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Cixin Liu",
"nat": "Chinese",
"occ": "author"
},
"expansion": "Coined by Chinese author Cixin Liu",
"name": "coin"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From dark + forest + hypothesis. From the title of the novel The Dark Forest (2008) (黑暗森林), by Liu Cixin (刘慈欣), from Chinese 黑暗森林, from 黑暗+森林. Coined by Chinese author Cixin Liu originally in Chinese, then translated into English.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "dark forest hypothesis (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English coinages",
"English compound terms",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms coined by Cixin Liu",
"English terms derived from Chinese",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Ufology"
],
"glosses": [
"A proposed explanation for the Fermi paradox that suggests extraterrestrial civilizations are abundant but remain silent and hidden, positing that any intelligent civilization views others as potential threats and thus actively avoids revealing itself."
],
"links": [
[
"SETI",
"SETI"
],
[
"ufology",
"ufology"
],
[
"proposed",
"proposed"
],
[
"explanation",
"explanation"
],
[
"Fermi paradox",
"Fermi paradox"
],
[
"suggest",
"suggest"
],
[
"extraterrestrial",
"extraterrestrial"
],
[
"civilization",
"civilization"
],
[
"abundant",
"abundant"
],
[
"remain",
"remain"
],
[
"silent",
"silent"
],
[
"hidden",
"hidden"
],
[
"posit",
"posit"
],
[
"intelligent",
"intelligent"
],
[
"view",
"view"
],
[
"potential",
"potential"
],
[
"threat",
"threat"
],
[
"actively",
"actively"
],
[
"avoid",
"avoid"
],
[
"reveal",
"reveal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(SETI, ufology) A proposed explanation for the Fermi paradox that suggests extraterrestrial civilizations are abundant but remain silent and hidden, positing that any intelligent civilization views others as potential threats and thus actively avoids revealing itself."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences",
"ufology"
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:The Dark Forest",
"zh:刘慈欣",
"zh:黑暗森林"
]
}
],
"word": "dark forest hypothesis"
}
Download raw JSONL data for dark forest hypothesis meaning in English (2.6kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: SETI, ufology",
"path": [
"dark forest hypothesis"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "dark forest hypothesis",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: SETI, ufology",
"path": [
"dark forest hypothesis"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "dark forest hypothesis",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.