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protraction

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Main Entry: protraction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extension

Synonyms:

addendum, addition, adjunct, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, arm, augmentation, branch, broadening, compass, continuing, delay, development, dilatation, distension, drawing out, elongation, expansion, extent, increase, lengthening, orbit, postponement, production, prolongation, purview, radius, reach, scope, span, spread, spreading out, stretch, stretching, supplement, sweep, widening, wing
Main Entry: continuance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: duration

Synonyms:

constancy, continuation, endurance, extension, guts*, longevity, period, permanence, perpetuation, protraction, run, survival, term, vitality

Antonyms:

arrest, end, ending, finish, hindrance, obstruction, stop, stoppage
Main Entry: continuation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: addition; maintenance

Synonyms:

assiduity, augmenting, continuance, continuing, continuity, duration, endurance, enduring, extension, furtherance, going on, increase, increasing, line, maintaining, perpetuating, perpetuation, persisting, postscript, preservation, preserving, producing, production, prolongation, prolonging, propagation, protracting, protraction, sequel, succession, supplement, sustaining, sustenance, tenacity

Antonyms:

cessation, end, finish, halt, stop, termination
Main Entry: continuity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: progression

Synonyms:

chain, cohesion, connection, constancy, continuance, continuousness, continuum, dovetailing, durability, duration, endurance, extension, flow, interrelationship, linking, perpetuity, persistence, prolongation, protraction, sequence, stability, stamina, succession, survival, train, uniting, unity, vitality, whole

Antonyms:

break, discontinuity, intermittence, interruption, stoppage
Main Entry: extension
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enlargement, continuation

Synonyms:

addendum, addition, adjunct, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, arm, augmentation, branch, broadening, compass, continuing, delay, development, dilatation, distension, drawing out, elongation, expansion, extent, increase, lengthening, orbit, postponement, production, prolongation, protraction, purview, radius, reach, scope, span, spread, spreading out, stretch, stretching, supplement, sweep, widening, wing

Antonyms:

abbreviation, abridgment, compression, contraction, curtailment, decrease, reduction, shortening
Main Entry: production
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: creating of goods, result

Synonyms:

assembly, authoring, bearing, blossoming, construction, creation, direction, elongation, engendering, extention, fabrication, formulation, fructification, generation, giving, lengthening, making, management, manufacture, manufacturing, origination, preparation, presentation, producing, prolongation, protraction, provision, rendering, reproduction, return, staging, yielding

Antonyms:

destruction, ruin
Main Entry: respite
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pause, suspension in activity

Synonyms:

acquittal, adjournment, break, breath*, breather, breathing space, cessation, coffee break, deadlock, deferment, delay, deliverance, discharge, downtime, ease, exculpation, five, forgiveness, halt, hiatus, immunity, intermission, interregnum, interruption, interval, layoff, leisure, letup, lull, moratorium, pardon, postponement, protraction, recess, relaxation, release, relief, reprieve, rest, stay, stop, ten, time, time out, truce

Antonyms:

continuation
Main Entry: stress
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: physical or mental pressure

Synonyms:

affliction, agony, alarm, albatross, anxiety, apprehensiveness, burden, clutch, crunch, disquiet, disquietude, distention, draw, dread, expectancy, extension, fear, fearfulness, ferment, flutter, force, hardship, hassle, heat, impatience, intensity, misgiving, mistrust, nervous tension, nervousness, oppression, overextension, passion, protraction, pull, restlessness, spring, strain, stretch, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, tightness, traction, trauma, trepidation, trial, urgency, worry

Antonyms:

indifference, relaxation
Main Entry: lateness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belatedness

Synonyms:

backwardness, delay, prolongation, protraction, retardation, slowness, tardiness

Antonyms:

anticipation, earliness, promptness
Main Entry: elongation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extension

Synonyms:

continuation, expansion, lengthening, prolongation, prolonging, protraction, stretching
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