relationingn.
/rᵻˈleɪʃn̩ɪŋ/, U.S. /rəˈleɪʃ(ə)nɪŋ/, /riˈleɪʃ(ə)nɪŋ/ The action of establishing relations between things.
ΚΠ
1861 H. Spencer First Princ. No. 2. 86 Thinking being relationing, no thought can ever express more than relations.
1915 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 15 121 All relationing is the work of spiritual activity.
1992 A. Hornung in A. Hornung & E. Ruhe Autobiographie & Avant-garde 403 Autobiography has always been concerned with the relationing of art and life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
relationingadj.
/rᵻˈleɪʃn̩ɪŋ/, U.S. /rəˈleɪʃənɪŋ/, /riˈleɪʃənɪŋ/ rare.
That establishes relations between things.
ΚΠ
1891 Mind 16 401 A simultaneous running on of different brain-processes is, on a consistent psycho-physical view of mind, a condition of all unifying or relationing consciousness.
1905 Athenæum 11 Feb. 170/2 A system of selves or individual centres of experience provides those fundamenta relationis apart from which the relationing work of thought were a tying of knots in the wind.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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