say it: FASH-uh-ning
fashioning is a noun meaning "the act that results in something coming to be". It carries one recorded sense.
the act that results in something coming to be
“the devising of plans”
“the fashioning of pots and pans”
“the making of measurements”
“it was already in the making”
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 fashioning 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.