fashioning
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈfæʃənɪŋ/
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- The local women there are justifiably acclaimed artisans, fashioning hats, boxes, placemats, and purses out of palm fronds.
- self-fashioning
- fashioning of identity
The whole business of effortless perfection as undergraduate women saw the self fashioning that they had to engage in.
- The whole business of effortless perfection as undergraduate women saw the self fashioning that they had to engage in.
Examples
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I believe individuals engaged in such self-fashioning view themselves as part of an imagined community of like-minded people.
Academic text (2000) -
As a global cultural phenomenon that appeared in the early twentieth century, the Modern Girl embodied a female self-fashioning that flouted conventional rules and regulatory gender codes.
Academic text (2017) -
Rather, it gives us a process, an act of fashioning, an act that is involved with dreams and desire and with love.
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The fashioning of one's voice in the classroom is largely constituted by one's position there.
Academic text (1993) -
According to Kuhn, the origin of a genuine science coincides with the fashioning of a paradigm.
Academic text (1996) -
Hammers beat upon red-hot iron, fashioning helicopter-like rotor blades.
Fiction book (1992) -
A long sociological tradition recognizes intersubjectivity, the mutual fashioning of selves in social interaction, as the basis both for human thought and for individual identity.
Academic text (2017) -
Manufacturing began with crude fashioning of hand tools about 2,000,000 years ago.
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Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Synonyms
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3.4
The process of making things from raw materials, often in factories
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1.3
The act of producing something
70
2.7
An act of cutting wood, stone and ice to make a shape or the thing made
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3.2
Shaping soft material like clay into a statue or rough copy used as a guide
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5.4
The act of making things, especially in a factory by shaping and joining materials
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3.0
Giving something a particular shape
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3.5
An object made by hand or the skill of making things by hand
Antonyms
How Skillful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fashioning comes from an old root facere meaning 'to make', and you can see the same root in factory, a place that makes things. So, fashioning is the act of making or 'shaping' something.