What does adding mean?
Adding means present participle and gerund of add.
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/ˈæ.dɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of add.
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[…] she is confronted with the menacing reality of her incompetence. Which is not to say she can't do the addings and subtractings.
Use adding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Adding means present participle and gerund of add.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:adding.
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