occurring

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈkɝɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈkɜːɹɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: oc‧cur‧ring

Verb

occurring

1. present participle and gerund of occur
2. present participle and gerund of occurre (obsolete form of occur)

Noun

occurring (plural occurrings)

1. An instance of something occurring; an event or happening.

   Synonym: occurrence

   • 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 197:

     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.

   • 2016, Janet Banfield, Geography Meets Gendlin:

     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, […]

Derived terms

• non-occurring

Adjective

occurring (not comparable)

1. (in combination) That occurs in a specified manner.

   naturally occurring macromolecules

Derived terms

• non-occurring