looming

From loom +‎ -ing.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈluːmɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlumɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
• Hyphenation: loom‧ing

looming (plural loomings)

1. gerund of loom: the condition of something that looms or towers.
   • 1850 May 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. V. Stump-Orator.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 155:

     But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him, what will be the use of 'light' to show us that?

looming

1. present participle and gerund of loom

looming (genitive loomingu, partitive loomingut)

1. creative work