English

Verb

encountering

1. present participle of encounter

Noun

encountering ‎(plural encounterings)

1. An act by which something is encountered.
   • 2010, Hans Rainer Sepp, ‎Lester E. Embree, Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics (page 218)

     This is still a species of reflection because it thematizes encounterings and things-as-encountered, even if they do not occur in the mental life of the person reflectively observing them.