Answering

Pronunciation

Origin

answer + -ing

Full definition of answering

Verb

1. Present participle of answer

Noun

1. The act of giving an answer.
• 1923, John Cann Bailey, The Continuity of Letters (page 107)An answer that comes out of the whirlwind is, logically, no answer at all: it belongs to a world above that of logical answerings.