orienting

1. 1.

   positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually

   “noticed the bee's momentary orienting pause before heading back to the hive”

   “an orienting program for new employees”

   Synonymsorientating

   Antonymsdisorienting

   Similaraligningdimensioningfamiliarizinghoming

Questions about orienting

What does orienting mean?

orienting means "positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually".

How many syllables are in orienting?

orienting has 3 syllables: o-rien-ting. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for orienting?

Close synonyms include orientating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of orienting?

The recorded antonyms are disorienting.

Is orienting a common word?

orienting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.