savoring
noun
- use of thoughts and actions to increase the intensity, duration, and appreciation of positive experiences and emotions
Wiktionary
noun
- 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 […]”
verb
- present participle and gerund of savor