| Main Entry: | demonstration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | display of proof |
Synonyms: |
affirmation, confirmation, description, evidence, exhibition, explanation, exposition, expression, illustration, induction, manifestation, presentation, proof, show, spectacle, substantiation, test, testimony, trial, validation |
Antonyms: |
concealment, hiding |
| Main Entry: | demonstration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | display of belief in cause by taking public action |
Synonyms: |
fast, lie-in, love-in, march, mass lobby, parade, peace march, picket, picket line, protest, rally, sit-in, strike, teach-in, walkout |
| Main Entry: | crusade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | campaign for cause |
Synonyms: |
cause, demonstration, drive, evangelism, expedition, holy war, jihad, march, movement, push |
| Main Entry: | display |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public showing; spectacle |
Synonyms: |
act, affectation, arrangement, array, arrayal, blaze, bravura, dash, demonstration, example, exhibit, exhibition, expo, exposition, exposure, fanfare, flourish, for show, frame-up, frippery, front, grandstand play, layout, manifestation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pageant, panorama, parade, pedantry, pomp, presentation, pretension, pretentiousness, revelation, sample, scheme, shine, showboat, splash, splendor, splurge, spread, unfolding, vanity |
Antonyms: |
hiding |
| Main Entry: | evidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proof |
Synonyms: |
affirmation, attestation, averment, cincher, clincher, clue, confirmation, corroboration, cue, data, declaration, demonstration, deposition, documentation, dope*, goods*, gospel, grabber, grounds, index, indication, indicia, info, information, manifestation, mark, sign, significant, smoking gun, substantiation, symptom, testament, testimonial, testimony, token, witness |
| Notes: | evidence (from Latin e- 'out' + videre 'to see') is information that helps form a conclusion; proof is factual information that verifies a conclusion |
Antonyms: |
contradiction, disproof, heresay, refutation |
| Main Entry: | explanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarification; reason |
Synonyms: |
account, annotation, answer, breakdown, brief, cause, comment, commentary, confession, definition, demonstration, description, details, display, elucidation, evidence, example, excuse, explication, exposition, expression, gloss, history, illustration, information, interpretation, justification, meaning, mitigation, motive, narration, note, recital, rendition, report, resolution, sense, showing, significance, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, talking, telling, vindication, writing |
Antonyms: |
complication |
| Main Entry: | exposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fair |
Synonyms: |
bazaar, circus, county fair, demonstration, display, exhibition, expo, marketplace, mart, pageant, presentation, production, show, showing |
| Main Entry: | fanfare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cheering |
Synonyms: |
alarum, array, ballyhoo, demonstration, display, flourish, hullabaloo*, panoply, parade, pomp, shine, show, trump, trumpet call |
| Main Entry: | grounds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basis, premise |
Synonyms: |
account, antecedent, argument, base, bedrock, call, cause, chapter and verse, demonstration, determinant, dope*, evidence, excuse, factor, footing, foundation, goods*, groundwork, inducement, info, information*, infrastructure, justification, motive, numbers, occasion, pretext, proof, rationale, reason, root*, seat, straight stuff, substratum, test, testimony, trial, underpinning, wherefore, why, whyfor |
| Main Entry: | hypothesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory |
Synonyms: |
antecedent, apriority, assignment, assumption, attribution, axiom, basis, belief, conclusion, condition, conjecture, data, deduction, demonstration, derivation, explanation, foundation, ground, guess, inference, interpretation, layout, lemma, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, presupposition, principle, proposal, proposition, rationale, reason, scheme, shot in the dark, speculation, starting point, suggestion, supposition, surmise, system, tentative law, term, theorem, thesis |
Antonyms: |
calcualtion, measurement, proof, reality, truth |