FORGOING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forgoing mean? 

• FORGOING (noun)
  The noun FORGOING has 1 sense:

1. the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)

  Familiarity information: FORGOING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORGOING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

forgoing; forswearing; renunciation

Hypernyms ("forgoing" is a kind of...):

rejection (the act of rejecting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forgoing"):

forsaking; giving up (the act of forsaking)

abnegation; denial; self-abnegation; self-denial; self-renunciation (renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others)