Home › Words › P › professoringprofessoringprofessoring means acting as a professor.EtymologyFrom professor + -ing.nounActing as a professor.e.g.“As an occupation, especially when compared to others within organizations, university professoring is unusually free of constraints, opening out to a broad span of personal possibilities.” — 1981, Van Cleve Morris, Deaning, Middle Management in Academe:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.professory 70% match — Of, relating to, or similar to a professor; professorial. vs professoring →professorish 69% match — Characteristic of a professor. vs professoring →professorship 69% match — The office of a professor. vs professoring →adjuncting 65% match — The act of working as an adjunct professor. vs professoring →profestrix 65% match — A female professor. vs professoring →professoriate 64% match — Professors considered as a group or body. vs professoring →professor 63% match — The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution. vs professoring →professorling 63% match — a young and unexperienced professor vs professoring →