looming

English

Etymology

From loom + -ing.

Pronunciation

Noun

looming (plural loomings)

  1. gerund of loom: the condition of something that looms or towers.
    • 1850 May 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. V. Stump-Orator.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, [], OCLC 559083570, page 155:
      But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him, what will be the use of 'light' to show us that?

Verb

looming

  1. present participle of loom

Estonian

Noun

looming (genitive loomingu, partitive loomingut)

  1. creative work

Declension

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