Cocooning

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of forming or spinning cocoons.
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  • verb. Present participle of cocoon.
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  • noun. retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape)
    • Word Usage
    "In her recent book, The Faith Popcorn Report, she explains that cocooning is about "reality retreat -- the impulse to stay inside when it just gets too tough and scary outside.""
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    seclusion  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    ballooning  cartooning  communing  crooning  impugning  
    verb-stem
    cocoon  
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