Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of occur
plural occurrings
- An instance of something occurring; an event or happening.
While it was noted above that the interaffecting of the present by the occurrings and implyings of the past provides a means of generating a sense of a personal past through the accumulation of bodily-relevant occurrings and implyings, […]
2016, Janet Banfield, Geography Meets Gendlin1 more example
The perceived and known fact on which this discussion is based, is not the difference between the occurring and the non-occurring of an act (for non-occurring does not say impossibility), nor the difference between possibility and impossibility of the act (for the possibility cannot be perceived), but the difference between the occurring and the impossibility.
1976, J. R. T. M. Peters, God’s Created Speech: A Study in the Speculative Theology of the Muʿtazilî Qâḍîl-Quḍât Abû L-Ḥasan ʿAbd Al-Jabbâr Bn Aḥmad Al-Hamaḏânî, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 197Synonyms: occurrence
- in compoundsnot comparableThat occurs in a specified manner.
naturally occurring macromolecules
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn instance of something occurring; an event or happening.
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