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say it: kuh-KOO-ning
cocooning is a noun meaning "retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape)". It carries one recorded sense.
retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cocooning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.