questing

English

Noun

questing (plural questings)

1. The act of going in quest of something.
   • 2002, Ariane Deluz, Suzette Heald, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Through Culture:

     By this move, Devereux gave new importance to fieldwork as a method of social enquiry. Psychoanalysis taught him that anxiety was not something to be avoided but is the driving force which propels our intellectual questings.

Verb

questing

1. present participle and gerund of quest