Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of hover
nounhovering (countable and uncountable, plural hoverings)
plural hoverings
- countableuncountableThe act of one who hovers.
Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.
1900, Henry James, The Soft Side The Third Person Chapter 3
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APA
hovering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hovering
MLA
“hovering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hovering. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hovering,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hovering.
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