whying
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
whying (uncountable)
- The act of asking the question "why?".
- 2016, Will C. Van Den Hoonaard, Ann Hamilton, editors, The Ethics Rapture: Exploring Alternatives for Formal Research Ethics Review, Toronto, Ont. […]: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 347:
- Researchers are not encouraged to engage in whying and the subsequent casting off of rules and procedures adopted from non-substantiated fear through the use of very few sensational occurrences.
Verb[edit]
whying
- present participle and gerund of why
References[edit]
- “whying, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
