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means The particular words and phrasing chosen to express something, where swapping one term for another can change the whole meaning or impact without changing the facts.

from Simply 'word' plus the suffix '-ing,' turning the noun into an act or process — the deliberate shaping of language. 'Word' itself traces back through Old English 'word' to a very old Germanic root, a cousin of Latin 'verbum,' both descending from a prehistoric root meaning roughly 'to speak.' The '-ing' suffix, also ancient Germanic, has long done double duty in English turning nouns into actions and actions into things — here it makes 'wording' the verbal choices themselves, as if words could be arranged like furniture in a room to change how it feels without moving the walls.