Meanings
plural anchorings
- countableuncountableThe act or means by which something is anchored or made firm.
Stripped of its temporal anchorings, what remains of Geddes's thinking was its inactual or anachronic idealism, which often isolated him from his contemporaries […]
2012, Professor Christian Hermansen Cordua, Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City, page 161 - countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving undue weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting an initial estimate of 20% to 30% when 90% would be more appropriate.
Synonyms: focalism
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of anchor
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving undue weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting an initial estimate of 20% to 30% when 90% would be more appropriate.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂enk-der.?
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓́γκῡρᾰ (ắnkūră)bor.?
- Latinancora
- Proto-Germanic*ankurô
- Proto-West Germanic*ankurō
- Old Englishancor
- Middle Englishanker
- Englishanchor
- Englishanchoring
Cite this entry
anchoring. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anchoring
“anchoring.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anchoring. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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