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 information).


 * 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

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