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interplaying

interplaying is the present participle and gerund of interplay.

Meaning of interplay

Verb

interplay (third-person singular simple present interplays, present participle interplaying, simple past and past participle interplayed)

  1. (intransitive) To interact.

See all 2 meanings of interplay

Adjective

interplaying (comparative more interplaying, superlative most interplaying)

  1. Mutually or reciprocally interacting

Noun

interplaying (plural interplayings)

  1. interplay
    • A rounded history of the periods, before, during and after the Second World War, will shed additional light on Swadesh, and on a series of complex interplayings of personality […]1983, Dell H. Hymes, Essays in the History of Linguistic Anthropology

Forms of interplaying

Adjective
comparativemore interplaying
superlativemost interplaying
Noun
pluralinterplayings

Questions about interplaying

What does interplaying mean?
Interplaying means mutually or reciprocally interacting.
What is interplaying the present participle and gerund of?
Interplaying is the present participle and gerund of interplay.
What part of speech is interplaying?
Interplaying can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near interplaying in the dictionary

  1. interplatelet
  2. interplatform
  3. interplay
  4. interplayed
  5. interplayer
  6. interplaying
  7. interplayings
  8. interplays
  9. interplea
  10. interplead
  11. interpleaded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: interplaying (page history and authors); interplay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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