addressing

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of address

noun

1. A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail
2. (computing) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage
3. (linguistics) A mode, manner, or form of direct speech to an audience.
   Just as a social inferior should not adopt a domineering structure of words and addressings, so a social superior must manage to inject just the right degree of condescension into his or her locutions 2010, R. S. Perinbanayagam, Discursive acts: language, signs, and selves, page 118