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origination
| Main Entry: |
origination
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | beginning, birth, commencement, conception, creation, dawn, dawning, discovery, genesis, innovation, introduction, launch, source, start, starting point |
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, building |
| Synonyms: | architecture, arrangement, assembly, build, cast, composition, conception, constitution, contour, cut, development, disposition, edifice, elevation, erecting, erection, fabric, fabricating, fabrication, figuration, figure, form, format, formation, foundation, improvisation, invention, makeup, making, manufacture, mold, origination, outline, plan, planning, prefab, prefabrication, putting up, raising, rearing, roadwork, shape, structure, system, systematization, turn, type |
| Antonyms: | destruction, disfigurement, disorganization, ruin, ruins |
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
| Synonyms: | conception, constitution, establishment, formation, formulation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, laying down, making, nascency, nativity, origination, procreation, production, setting up, siring |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | discovery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finding, uncovering |
| Synonyms: | analysis, ascertainment, authentication, calculation, certification, detection, determination, diagnosis, discernment, disclosure, distinguishing, empiricism, encounter, espial, experimentation, exploration, exposition, exposure, feeling, hearing, identification, introduction, invention, learning, locating, location, origination, perception, revelation, sensing, sighting, strike, unearthing, verification |
| Antonyms: | loss, miss |
| Main Entry: | emanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emergence, discharge |
| Synonyms: | arising, beginning, derivation, drainage, effluence, effluent, efflux, effusion, ejaculation, emerging, emission, escape, exhalation, exudation, flow, flowing, gush, issuance, issuing, leakage, oozing, origin, origination, outflow, outpour, proceeding, radiation, springing, welling |
| Antonyms: | taking, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | generation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, production |
| Synonyms: | bearing, begetting, breeding, bringing forth, engenderment, formation, fructifying, genesis, multiplying, origination, procreation, propagation, reproduction, spawning |
| Antonyms: | destruction |
| Main Entry: | novelty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | newness, originality |
| Synonyms: | change, crazy*, creation, dernier cri, freshness, innovation, last word, modernity, mutation, newfangled contraption, oddball, oddity, original, origination, permutation, recentness, sport*, strangeness, surprise, unfamiliarity, uniqueness, vicissitude, weird* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | origin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, inception |
| Synonyms: | alpha, birth, blast off, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, early stage, embarkation, emergence, entrance, entry, forging, foundation, genesis, git go, inauguration, ingress, initiation, introduction, launch, nativity, opener, origination, outbreak, outset, rise, square one, start, starting point |
| Antonyms: | close, completion, conclusion, death, end, finale, termination |
| 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 |
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