Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of recount
plural recountings
- An act in which something is recounted
Months after his first mention of the book he was still obsessing, daily it seemed, about minutiae of the Chambers-Alger Hiss espionage confrontation, while his sidekicks histrionically greeted his recountings with a chorus of groans and protests of the “not-again” variety.
2007 April 15, Sam Tanenhaus, “Playing Along With Imus”, in New York TimesSynonyms: recountal
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn act in which something is recounted
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recounting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recounting
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