Synonyms of engendering

engendering

verb

present participle of engender

1

as in creating

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

a suggestion to go out for pizza that didn't seem to engender any interest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creating
• causing
• generating
• bringing
• prompting
• producing
• spawning
• doing
• inducing
• effecting
• yielding
• working
• invoking
• making
• catalyzing
• occasioning
• effectuating
• breeding
• resulting (in)
• begetting
• bringing about
• promoting
• giving rise to
• drawing on
• translating (into)
• encouraging
• introducing
• establishing
• initiating
• fostering
• bringing on
• instituting
• inaugurating
• bringing forth
• determining
• contributing (to)
• developing
• furthering
• cultivating
• launching
• pioneering
• enacting
• beginning
• nurturing
• deciding
• advancing
• founding
• starting
• rendering
• forwarding
• conducing (to)
• setting
• fathering
• setting up
• nourishing
• innovating
• turning out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limiting
• restricting
• impeding
• controlling
• suppressing
• crushing
• inhibiting
• repressing
• stifling
• quelling
• quashing
• subduing
• restraining
• curbing
• smothering
• retarding
• checking
• arresting
• dampening
• killing
• putting down
• squashing
• destroying
• squelching
• abolishing
• extinguishing
• cracking down (on)
• quenching
• clamping down (on)
• demolishing
• liquidating
• canning
• reining (in)
• stilling
• snuffing (out)

2

as in originating

to come into existence

feelings of confidence and independence that were only just beginning to engender within her

Synonyms & Similar Words

• originating
• beginning
• starting
• arising
• being
• commencing
• forming
• appearing
• springing
• emerging
• actualizing
• living
• materializing
• existing
• arriving
• breaking
• dawning
• lasting
• setting in
• continuing
• breathing
• enduring
• persisting
• subsisting
• surviving
• coming on
• cohering
• shaping (up)
• coalescing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ending
• stopping
• ceasing
• terminating
• halting
• concluding
• finishing
• discontinuing
• dissolving
• evaporating
• vanishing
• quitting
• disappearing
• dying
• desisting
• departing
• passing away
• perishing
• expiring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of engendering

Some 3,500 people were extrajudicially disappeared during the last 15 years of Hasina’s reign, says the interim government, while every institution was politicized, engendering deep distrust of the military, courts, civil service, and especially security services. —Charlie Campbell, Time, 28 Jan. 2026

But sources told Fortune this approach can muddy the waters between leadership and friendship, engendering new vulnerabilities. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025

For the busy leader, this shift can have a monumental impact, engendering an outlook that is spacious, calm, clear, and focused. —Rasmus Hougaard, Big Think, 18 Mar. 2025

Far from engendering this shift, Mark Zuckerberg is merely the latest figure to highlight it. —The Editors, National Review, 8 Jan. 2025

The Russian government is avoiding mobilization like the plague, engendering clever (but still desperate) ways to pad the ranks. —Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025

Following 15 years of uninterrupted rule, practically every government institution has been politicized by Hasina’s Awami League party, engendering deep distrust of the military, courts, civil service, and especially security services. —Charlie Campbell, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024

In spite of the series’s bleak themes, Lucas succeeds in engendering a new hope, a vision of the future in which the hegemon is deposed. —Ruby Thélot, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024