savoring

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of savor

noun

1. The act by which something is savored.

   “Mightn't one even begin to understand the manifold woes, predicaments, and estrangements of man—and the delights and savorings and homecomings—as nothing more nor less than the variables of the Delta phenomenon […]”