Recounting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Recounting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of recount.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of recount.
More Meanings
- An act in which something is recounted
Example Sentences
Months after his first mention of the book he was still obsessing, daily it seemed, about minutiae of the Chambers-Alger Hiss espionage confrontation, while his sidekicks histrionically greeted his recountings with a chorus of groans and protests of the “not-again” variety.
Word Forms
- recountings
Synonyms for recounting
Depending on context, synonyms include recountal, relation, telling.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include relation, telling, recalling, narrating, spanning, describing.
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