blending

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: blend=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

blending, n. 

•  The act of mingling.  [1913 Webster]
•  The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.  Weale.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

blending

Combination

N combination, mixture, junction, union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment, coalescence, crasis, fusion, blending, absorption, centralization, alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertium quid, resultant, impregnation, combined, impregnated with, ingrained, imbued inoculated.