Definition for Extinction:

• State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.

Synonyms for Extinction:

• n.

  •
  • away,
  • stifling,
  • dissipation.
  •
  • eradication.
  •
  • rest.
  •annihilation (noun)
  • abolition.
  •death (noun)
  • ending,
  • release,
  • annihilation,
  • decease,
  • expiration,
  • fatality,
  • quietus,
  • passing,
  • parting,
  • cessation.
  •destruction (noun)
  • massacre,
  • ruination,
  • mortality.
  •dying out (noun)
  • obsolescence,
  • elimination,
  • thing of the past,
  • no life.
  •extinction (noun)
  • experimental extinction,
  • defunctness,
  • quenching,
  • extinguishing.
  •mortality (noun)
  • loss of life.
  •nonexistence (noun)
  • absence,
  • nothingness,
  • nil.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disappearance,
  • ruin,
  • obliteration.
  •
  • curtain.
  •
  • loss.
  •elimination
  • purge.
  •Other relevant words:
  • eschatology,
  • completion,
  • darkening,
  • fortune,
  • cancel,
  • nullification,
  • vanishing,
  • obstruction,
  • repressing,
  • demolish,
  • Ceasing,
  • putting to death,
  • destination,
  • dazzling,
  • effacement,
  • Preventing,
  • lose,
  • fade out,
  • conspicuous,
  • suppression,
  • extinctions,
  • halt,
  • wiping out,
  • evaporate,
  • reward,
  • limit,
  • destroy,
  • suffocation,
  • mutilation,
  • Interdicting,
  • dispel,
  • egregious,
  • voiding,
  • deceased,
  • eliminate,
  • crack down,
  • gross,
  • dissolving,
  • Dies Irae,
  • cracking down on,
  • carnage,
  • evaporation,
  • blatant,
  • cancellation,
  • void,
  • demolition,
  • goal,
  • darkness,
  • eradicate,
  • controlling,
  • eat,
  • blot out,
  • forbiddance,
  • genocide,
  • last sleep,
  • Squelching,
  • inactivity,
  • anonymity,
  • withholding,
  • efface,
  • wreckage,
  • excision,
  • Perishing,
  • amputation,
  • consummation,
  • extinguish,
  • hindering,
  • fade away,
  • negation,
  • erase,
  • die out,
  • delete,
  • evanescence,
  • stop,
  • the end,
  • limbo,
  • destiny,
  • deaden,
  • crack of doom,
  • abscission,
  • concealing,
  • inactive,
  • killing,
  • wipe,
  • rescission,
  • vanishing point,
  • butchery,
  • uprooting,
  • abolishment,
  • doing in,
  • murder,
  • fire fighting,
  • Checking,
  • burnout,
  • dead,
  • Restraining,
  • glary,
  • black out,
  • terminus,
  • clinical death,
  • surcease,
  • die,
  • choking,
  • exit,
  • flagrant,
  • Quieting,
  • fall,
  • shadow of death,
  • Prohibiting,
  • pogrom,
  • annihilate,
  • aim,
  • tabula rasa,
  • prevention,
  • sleep,
  • exclusion,
  • blocking,
  • stamp out,
  • lot,
  • finish,
  • undoing,
  • Terminating,
  • concealment,
  • determination,
  • rubbing out,
  • expire,
  • flaming,
  • discontinuation,
  • passing away,
  • Precluding,
  • death knell,
  • inaction,
  • defunct,
  • blackness,
  • dematerialization,
  • biological death,
  • denouement,
  • blinding,
  • grave,
  • cutting off,
  • crushing,
  • termination,
  • preclusion,
  • Damping,
  • break,
  • doing away with,
  • censoring,
  • learning,
  • nonliving,
  • putting down,
  • blow over,
  • prohibition,
  • censorship,
  • become extinct,
  • going out,
  • doom,
  • Quashing,
  • fate,
  • customs house,
  • blankness,
  • vanish,
  • Discontinuing,
  • expiry,
  • check,
  • flame-out,
  • deletion,
  • quelling,
  • crush out,
  • Obstructing,
  • Subduing,
  • fadeout,
  • doomsday,
  • fadeaway,
  • dissolve,
  • mow down,
  • strangulation,
  • somatic death,
  • disappearing,
  • going,
  • consume,
  • eternal rest,
  • last rest,
  • kismet,
  • dispersion,
  • dying,
  • slaughter,
  • allay,
  • cut-off,
  • karma,
  • blood bath,
  • stopping,
  • Muffling,
  • interdiction,
  • blazing,
  • erasure,
  • bane,
  • exterminate,
  • halting,
  • rooting out,
  • Nihility,
  • devastation,
  • Vanishment,
  • obscurity,
  • fading,
  • assassination,
  • stagnant,
  • circumduction,
  • hiding,
  • fade,
  • Snuffing,
  • burning,
  • Suppressing,
  • departure,
  • idle,
  • quench,
  • open,
  • downfall,
  • melting,
  • choking off,
  • put-down,
  • deracination,
  • forbidding,
  • key point,
  • passing over,
  • squander,
  • closure,
  • restraint,
  • dissipate,
  • conclusion,
  • Muting,
  • perish,
  • knell,
  • dousing,
  • annulment,
  • disappear,
  • wastage,
  • slaying,
  • blot,
  • Silencing,
  • finality,
  • control,
  • smothering,
  • repression,
  • Rasure,
  • mincemeat,
  • rub out,
  • blackout,
  • numb.

Paraphrases for Extinction:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    extinguishing.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    extinguishing.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    termination.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    annihilation, destruction, termination.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    extermination.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    extirpation, eradication, elimination, genocide, quenching, exhaustion, deactivation, abolition, depletion, dissolution, firefighting, vanishing, devastation, liquidation, abatement, death, expiration, removal, disbandment, revocation.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    Extinguishment, suppression, disappearance, disappearances.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Extinguishment, suppression, disappearance.

Antonyms for Extinction:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    re-creation, raising, reclamation, conservation, refurbishment, reconstruction, Regeneracy, restoration, rescue, salvage, protection, construction, building, renovation, remodeling, saving, preservation, salvation.

Hyponym for Extinction:

• n.

  • process
    activity, action, natural action, natural process.
  • state
    inaction, inactivity, inactiveness.

Meronym for Extinction:

• n.

  • process
    absorption, scattering.