stirring

1. (gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirredExamples: "The reduction takes the central bank back to where it was in December 2005, when it began raising its key rate despite objections from some political figures and many economists about choking the early stirrings of a recovery in growth."; "[…] his inability to move freely in nature as the song's protagonist expects to, or to enjoy the emotional stirrings that such movement often precipitates. That is, the video shows how the African American subject is not given time, space, or opportunity to form the kinds of individualized, sentimental, wondrous, or otherwise normatively affective relationships that mainstream environmentalism champions."countablegerunduncountable