mattering

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of matter. Use this -ing form when something is being important right now or as an action word.

   Winning stopped mattering once everyone was just having fun.

   Their support kept mattering to her through the hard times.

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2. 2
   nounrareuncountable

   The quality of being important or worth caring about.

   Like feeling you are an important piece of a puzzle, not one that could be left out.

   Everyone wants some sense of mattering to the people around them.

   But not all matterings matter the same: you value your daily respite at the coffee shop that's long brightened your mornings, but if that shop goes under, you wouldn't—I hope—be facing existential threat.

   2015, John M. Doris, Talking to Our Selves: ReflectionHere, matterings means ways things are important or count for something.

   Similarsignificance, importance, worth, relevance

   Oppositeinsignificance, unimportance

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