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| Main Entry: | diffusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spread; wide distribution |
| Synonyms: | circulation, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, expansion, propaganda, propagation, scattering, dispersal |
| Antonyms: | collection, concentration |
| Main Entry: | dissemination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distribution |
| Synonyms: | broadcasting, circulation, diffusion, dissipation, propagation, publication, spread, airing, promulgation, publishing |
| Antonyms: | collection, gathering |
| Main Entry: | effusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outpouring |
| Synonyms: | address, diffusion, discharge, effluvium, efflux, emanation, emission, gush, gushing, ooze, outflow, pouring, shedding, stream, verbosity, wordiness, effluence, exudate |
| Main Entry: | expansion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
| Synonyms: | amplification, augmentation, breadth, development, diffusion, dilation, distance, enlargement, evolution, expanse, extension, increase, inflation, multiplication, space, spread, stretch, swelling, distension, magnification, maturation, opening out, unfolding, unfurling |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinkage, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | dispersion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dispersal |
| Synonyms: | diffusion, distribution, scattering |
| Main Entry: | wordiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
| Synonyms: | circumlocution, copiousness, diffusion, garrulity, loquacity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, verbiage, diffuseness, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, tautology, verboseness, windiness |
| Antonyms: | directness, straightforwardness, terseness |
| Main Entry: | distribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation, dispersion |
| Synonyms: | administration, allotment, apportionment, assessment, circulating, circulation, delivery, diffusion, dispensation, disposal, dissemination, division, dole, handling, mailing, marketing, partition, propagation, scattering, sharing, spreading, transport, transportation, alloting, apportioning, assigning, dealing, dispersal, disposing, dissipating, handing out, partitioning, prorating, rationing, trading |
| Antonyms: | collection, gathering, hoard, maintenance, store, hoarding |
| Main Entry: | spread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expansion, development; extent |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, compass, diffusion, dispersion, dissemination, enlargement, escalation, expanse, extension, increase, period, profusion, proliferation, radiation, ramification, range, reach, scope, span, spreading, stretch, sweep, term, transfusion, transmission, suffusion |
| Antonyms: | stagnation, suppression |
| Main Entry: | penetration |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | act of entering |
| Synonyms: | diffusion, entrance, ingress, insertion, invasion, osmosis, piercing, seepage, forcing, infiltration, perforation, punching, stabbing, thrusting |
| Antonyms: | departure, egress, evacuation |
| Main Entry: | radiation |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | dissemination |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, circulation, diffusion, dispersion, dissipation, distribution, divergence, emission, propagation, ramification, scattering, spread, transmission, diffraction, dispersal, divarication, polarization |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disappearance |
| Synonyms: | diffusion, disintegration, dispersion, dissemination, dissolution, distribution, emission, extravagance, improvidence, radiation, scattering, spread, vanishing, waste, dispersal, wastage |
| Antonyms: | appearance |
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