Community Stages Terminology

Bruce Tuckman proposed four stages that groups go through: forming, storming, norming, and performing. This page tracks the use of other candidate community stages. See the blog post for more detail.

If you know that words on this have been used in some published work, feel free to mark them as used with   tags and to point out who used it. Links to papers would be ideal!


 * aborning
 * adjourning (Tuckman and Jensen 1977)
 * adorning
 * antireforming
 * attorning
 * ausforming
 * barnstorming
 * bestorming
 * bethorning
 * beworming
 * borning
 * brainstorming
 * chloroforming
 * conforming
 * corning
 * deforming
 * dehorning
 * deworming
 * disadorning
 * disforming
 * dishorning
 * disinforming
 * electroforming
 * enforming
 * forming (Tuckman 1965)
 * gorming
 * horning
 * hydroforming
 * informing
 * midmorning
 * misforming
 * misinforming
 * morning
 * mourning (Tuckman and Jensen 1977)
 * nonadorning
 * nonconforming
 * nondeforming
 * nonforming
 * nonperforming
 * nonsporeforming
 * nontransforming
 * norming (Tuckman 1965)
 * outperforming (Rickards and Moger 2002)
 * outscorning
 * overinforming
 * performing (Tuckman 1965)
 * platforming
 * postforming
 * preforming
 * premorning
 * readjourning
 * readorning
 * reforming (White 2009)
 * reinforming
 * rejourning
 * retransforming
 * renorming (Timothy Biggs)
 * scorning
 * shoehorning
 * slipforming
 * sojourning
 * sorning
 * sporeforming
 * storming (Tuckman 1965)
 * stubborning
 * suborning
 * terraforming
 * thermoforming
 * thorning
 * transforming (White 2009)
 * unconforming
 * underperforming
 * unforming
 * uniforming
 * uninforming
 * unmourning
 * unperforming
 * unreforming
 * untransforming
 * worming
 * yestermorning
 * afterswarming
 * beswarming
 * hearthwarming
 * heartwarming
 * housewarming
 * inswarming
 * overswarming
 * overwarming
 * prewarming
 * rewarming
 * swarming
 * unswarming
 * upswarming
 * warming

Making This List
This was generated on a Debian system using the american-english-insane dictionary using the following command:

grep -e '[^A-Z].*ou\?r[mn]ing$' /usr/share/dict/american-english-insane

Plus a few from this command, filtered to only those that rhyme.

grep -i -E "[^A-Z].*ar[mn]ing$" /usr/share/dict/american-english-insane