groping

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groping

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of grope

noun gropings

An act of groping; a grope. The theory of the civilized Greek of Sicily may be set beside the similar theory of the savage Arunta of Central Australia. Both represent gropings of the human mind in the dark abysses of the past; both were in a measure grotesque anticipations of the modern theory of evolution.

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Closest in meaning: hesitant, uncertain, incertain, unsure, touching, gropery, gripe, gripple, grippie, griff, grooving, grobianism, handgrasp, grip, gurab, grogger

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@misc{groping_2026,
  title = {groping},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/groping},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}