Questing

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of going in quest of something.

    "By this move, Devereux gave new importance to fieldwork as a method of social enquiry. Psychoanalysis taught him that anxiety was not something to be avoided but is the driving force which propels our intellectual questings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of quest form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"By this move, Devereux gave new importance to fieldwork as a method of social enquiry. Psychoanalysis taught him that anxiety was not something to be avoided but is the driving force which propels our intellectual questings."

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