FORGOING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)

Synonyms:

forgoing; forswearing; renunciation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("forgoing" is a kind of...):

rejection (the act of rejecting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forgoing"):

forsaking; giving up (the act of forsaking)

abnegation; denial; self-abnegation; self-denial; self-renunciation (renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others)

-ing form of the verb forgo