worlding
worlding is the present participle and gerund of world.
Meaning of world
Verb
world (third-person singular simple present worlds, present participle worlding, simple past and past participle worlded)
- To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focusing on national or other distinctions; compare globalize.
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving...1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x
- To make real; to make worldly.
Questions about worlding
- What is worlding the present participle and gerund of?
- Worlding is the present participle and gerund of world.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: worlding (page history and authors); world (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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