Definition for Expansion:

• The act of expanding; the state of being expanded; enlargement; distention; extent; extension; increase in trade or the circulation of bank- notes; an increase of the bulk of any body by an agent acting within.

Synonyms for Expansion:

• n.

  •
  • jump,
  • upswing,
  • explosion,
  • upsurge,
  • leap,
  • surge.
  •
  • reach,
  • distance,
  • extent,
  • sweep.
  •
  • grow,
  • inflate,
  • dilate,
  • swell,
  • expand.
  •addition (noun)
  • acquisition,
  • accumulation,
  • accrual,
  • enlargement,
  • aggregation,
  • increment,
  • attainment.
  •distention (noun)
  • dilation.
  •elongation (noun)
  • elongation,
  • Prolonging.
  •expansion (noun)
  • engorgement,
  • lengthening,
  • burgeoning,
  • fattening,
  • crescendo,
  • widening,
  • expanding upon,
  • swelling,
  • spreading.
  •growth (noun)
  • multiplication,
  • unfurling,
  • breadth,
  • opening out,
  • magnification.
  •increase (noun)
  • elevation.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • abbreviation.
  •
  • expanse.
  •attachment
  • annexation.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dropsical,
  • refinement,
  • overkill,
  • outer space,
  • bigness,
  • overflow,
  • compass,
  • unravel,
  • aggrandizement,
  • depression,
  • measure,
  • huge,
  • repletion,
  • tract,
  • broadcasting,
  • coloring,
  • prodigality,
  • caricature,
  • involution,
  • flare,
  • avalanche,
  • annotation,
  • evaporation,
  • dilution,
  • exorbitant,
  • field,
  • gooseberry,
  • raising,
  • interstellar space,
  • cooling off,
  • range,
  • emptiness,
  • surfeit,
  • outspread,
  • widen,
  • Extending,
  • depth,
  • Hyperspace,
  • access,
  • colossal,
  • supplement,
  • full growth,
  • tremendous,
  • grandiloquent,
  • expound,
  • appreciation,
  • Turgescence,
  • course,
  • flowering,
  • boost,
  • intensify,
  • economic growth,
  • overemphasis,
  • big,
  • ballyhoo,
  • protract,
  • plenty,
  • glorify,
  • mounting,
  • addendum,
  • fish story,
  • dispersion,
  • continuum,
  • scale,
  • radius,
  • rise,
  • develop,
  • widespread,
  • extravagance,
  • maturity,
  • dissemination,
  • burlesque,
  • ascent,
  • sprinkling,
  • annotating,
  • increasing,
  • intricacy,
  • diffraction,
  • augment,
  • dispersal,
  • prodigious,
  • width,
  • clarification,
  • redundance,
  • calibre,
  • edema,
  • accession,
  • way,
  • furtherance,
  • Overmeasure,
  • radiation,
  • Hiking,
  • enlarge,
  • strengthening,
  • enhance,
  • unfold,
  • dissipation,
  • footnote,
  • overstatement,
  • yarn,
  • amplitude,
  • exuberance,
  • build up,
  • attenuation,
  • propagation,
  • unroll,
  • lengthen,
  • bourgeoning,
  • proportion,
  • overreach,
  • superabundance,
  • body,
  • fringe,
  • upping,
  • hyperbole,
  • distribution,
  • hike,
  • bulky,
  • overdose,
  • exorbitance,
  • plus,
  • distend,
  • profit,
  • blossoming,
  • gush,
  • measurement,
  • delicacy,
  • crisis,
  • Superfluence,
  • divergence,
  • slump,
  • business cycle,
  • dropsy,
  • glutted,
  • gradual change,
  • stretch out,
  • magnify,
  • produce,
  • dimensions,
  • empty space,
  • amplify,
  • greatness,
  • bloated,
  • mushrooming,
  • extensive,
  • grandiloquence,
  • outstretched,
  • nimiety,
  • saturation,
  • heightening,
  • profusion,
  • Dispensing,
  • derivation,
  • height,
  • publication,
  • Inordinacy,
  • continuation,
  • encouragement,
  • diameter,
  • bulging,
  • mass,
  • travesty,
  • remark,
  • explication,
  • Maturing,
  • void,
  • big talk,
  • Elongating,
  • inundation,
  • broadcast,
  • peak,
  • expanding economy,
  • bust,
  • reference,
  • magnitude,
  • nonsense,
  • broaden,
  • calibrate,
  • bombastic,
  • superlative,
  • coverage,
  • enormous,
  • strewing,
  • gigantic,
  • exposition,
  • inflated,
  • congestion,
  • lion's share,
  • scattering,
  • Puffery,
  • welling up,
  • Distributing,
  • derivative,
  • swollen,
  • surface,
  • enhancement,
  • accruement,
  • tumescence,
  • proliferation,
  • transcendency,
  • load,
  • great,
  • area,
  • glorification,
  • splay,
  • water,
  • extreme,
  • raise,
  • success,
  • blowing up,
  • improvement,
  • oversupply,
  • accretion,
  • embroidery,
  • acreage,
  • excess,
  • advance,
  • accomplishment,
  • ennoblement,
  • rarefaction,
  • redundancy,
  • bulk,
  • infinite space,
  • elaborateness,
  • gain,
  • proportions,
  • Circumfusion,
  • strain,
  • circumvent,
  • Huckstering,
  • bulge,
  • exaggeration,
  • superfluity,
  • elucidation,
  • sensationalism,
  • room,
  • dimension,
  • promotion,
  • waxing,
  • nothingness,
  • working out,
  • Subtilization,
  • immense,
  • diastole,
  • flood tide,
  • note,
  • escalation,
  • bottoming out,
  • Enlarging,
  • Snowballing,
  • repetition,
  • full,
  • ballooning,
  • flood,
  • carry out,
  • too much,
  • Evolving,
  • productiveness,
  • Nurturing,
  • blow up,
  • puffing up,
  • Peppering,
  • flourishing,
  • deployment,
  • Volatilization,
  • elongate,
  • explain,
  • spattering,
  • extend,
  • advancement,
  • Peaking,
  • economic cycle,
  • Touting,
  • profuseness,
  • scope,
  • aggrandize,
  • largeness,
  • sprawl,
  • fragmentation,
  • downturn,
  • Exaggerating,
  • ripening,
  • disseminating,
  • aggravation,
  • prolixity,
  • boom,
  • modification,
  • vast,
  • Bloating,
  • large,
  • exaggerate,
  • Dispersing,
  • product,
  • developing,
  • recovery,
  • economic expansion,
  • swing,
  • animadversion,
  • more than enough,
  • explanation,
  • overestimation,
  • criticism,
  • dispensation,
  • caliber,
  • tall talk,
  • wide,
  • Hyperbolism,
  • revision,
  • gauge,
  • thermal expansion,
  • recession,
  • slowdown,
  • Sowing,
  • cultivation,
  • uptrend,
  • too many,
  • deploy,
  • blowup,
  • low,
  • volume,
  • puffy,
  • second edition,
  • plethora,
  • adjunct,
  • proliferating,
  • sphere,
  • Ampliation.

Paraphrases for Expansion:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    expanding.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    expanding.
  • Verb, past tense
    expanded.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    magnification.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    expansionism, dissemination, dilation, amplification, magnification.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    expanded, futures, problems, expands, Spanning, development.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    intensification, multiplication, expandability, rise, progression, generalization, build-up, generalisation, scale-up, explosion, escalation, 'extension, growing, upswing, reinforcement, penetration, diversification, surge, prolongation, pervasiveness, Spanning, upturn, elaboration, consolidation, fortification, swelling, evolution, promotion, spillover, construction, creation, progress, deployment, reactivation, implementation.
  • Adverb
    further.
  • Verb, past tense
    Grew, augmented.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    rises, enhances, continues.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    extension, extensions, broadening, Extending.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    expansionist, extension, proliferation, boom, scaling-up, propagation, upscaling, expanse, broadening, extent, upsurge, development, diffusion, scope, continuation, inflation, Extending.
  • Adverb
    expanding.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    expands.

Antonyms for Expansion:

• n.

  • growth
    decrease, compression, abridgment, shrinkage, lessening, stagnation, reduction.
  • Other antonyms:
    degeneracy, backslide, downgrade, abatement, decrement, devaluation, falling, depletion, degeneration, decline, falloff, regression, descent, diminution, downfall, fall, lapse, lowering, decadence, weakening, decay, relapse, reversion, declination, deterioration, deduction, retrogression, subtraction, degradation, ebbing, declension, regress, loss.

Hyponym for Expansion:

• n.

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    mapping, mathematical function, function, single-valued function, map.