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