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🗣️ Using language 🗣️ To express thoughts
to languaging

to languaging

8.7
To use words to share ideas and build understanding
  • verb
  • /ˈlæŋɡwədʒɪŋ/
  • Specialized
: expresar
  • She spent hours languaging her feelings to ensure he understood her perspective.

Examples

  • He believes that languaging his ideas clearly is essential for effective teamwork.

  • In therapy, they focus on languaging thoughts to improve communication skills.

  • So calibrate your languaging so your words to yourself are world class.

  • Someone very close to me who was a little sloppy with her languaging said, oh, I forgot to do this, punch myself in the face.

  • And like, I mean, his languaging might, if he says that was troubling, it might mean that it was very troubling or not troubling at all.

Synonyms

to languaged
vsto languaging
1 9.9

To express something in words

is a deliberate active process that builds understanding and thought through language

How Explicit

to articulate
129 4.4
to express
∞ 2.3
to languaging
  • Specialized
8.7
to say
∞ 1.0
to hint
119 2.0
to imply
439 3.5

Surface Forms

languaging infinitive
languaged past
languaged past participle
languaging present participle
languagings third person singular

Morphology

languaging = language (semi-transparent) = language + ing

The form is the regular '-ing' extension of the verb 'language', and the meaning is fairly predictable as an ongoing act of using language.

Etymology

Languaging comes from language, from the Latin lingua 'tongue'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture 'putting thoughts on the tongue' — languaging is using language to say, shape, and share your ideas.