lingering

noun

1. (form-of, gerund)gerund of linger: an act of loitering or waiting.

   “But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings.”

2. That which lingers; a remnant.

   “The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.”

   “Whatever little lingerings may have now and then revived in my mind associated with my poor old face had only revived as belonging to a part of my life that was gone—gone like my infancy or my childhood.”

verb

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