THESAURUS
expansion
access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acreage, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, amplification, amplitude, appreciation, area, ascent, attenuation, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, big talk, bigness, bloating, blossoming, blowing up, body, boom, boost, bottoming out, breadth, broadcast, broadcasting, broadening, buildup, bulk, burgeoning, burlesque, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, caliber, caricature, circumfusion, continuum, cooling off, coverage, crescendo, crisis, depression, depth, development, developmental change, diameter, diffraction, diffusion, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, dimensions, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, distance, distension, distention, distribution, divergence, downturn, economic cycle, economic
expansion, economic growth, edema, elaboration, elevation, emptiness, empty space, enhancement, enlargement, evaporation, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expanding economy, expanse, expatiation, explication, extension, extent, extravagance, extreme, field, flood, flourishing, flowering, fragmentation, furtherance, gain, galactic space, gauge, girth, gradual change, grandiloquence, greatening, greatness, growth, gush, height, heightening, high growth rate, hike, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, increase, increment, infinite space, inflation, inordinacy, interstellar space, jump, largeness, leap, length, low, magnification, magnitude, market
expansion, mass, maturation, measure, measurement, mounting, multiplication, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, nothingness, outer space, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, peak, peaking, peppering, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, progress, progression, proliferation, propagation, proportion, proportions, prosperity, publication, puffery, puffing up, radiation, radius, raise, range, reach, recession, recovery, ripening, rise, scale, scattering, scatterment, scope, sensationalism, shotgun pattern, size, slowdown, slump, snowballing, sowing, space, spatial extension, spattering, sphere, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, stretch, stretching, strewing, superficial extension, superlative, surface, surge, swelling, tall talk, touting, tract, travesty, tumescence, unfolding, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, void, volatilization, volume, waxing, widening, width, working-out
ROGET THESAURUS
expansion
Copy
N
copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype, imitation, model, representation, adumbration, study, portrait, resemblance, duplicate, reproduction, cast, tracing, reflex, reflexion, reflection, shadow, echo, transcript, transcription, recording, scan, chip off the old block, reprint, new printing, rechauffe, apograph, fair copy, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase, derivative, derivation, modification,
expansion, extension, revision, second edition, servile copy, servile imitation, plagiarism, counterfeit, fake, pasticcio, faithful, lifelike, close, conscientious, unoriginal, imitative, derivative.
Space
N
space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace, room, scope, range, field, way,
expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread, dimension, length, distance, size, volume, hypervolume, latitude, play, leeway, purchase, tolerance, room for maneuver, spare room, elbow room, house room, stowage, roomage, margin, opening, sphere, arena, open space, free space, void, waste, wildness, wilderness, moor, moorland, campagna, abyss, unlimited space, infinity, world, ubiquity, length and breadth of the land, proportions, acreage, acres, acres and perches, roods and perches, hectares, square miles, square inches, square yards, square centimeters, square meters, yards (clothing), ares, arpents, spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample, widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed, boundless, shoreless, trackless, pathless, extended, extensively, wherever, everywhere, far and near, far and wide, right and left, all over, all the world over, throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land, under the sun, in every quarter, in all quarters, in all lands, here there and everywhere, from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end, on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass, to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.
Expansion
N
expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.
Rarity
N
rarity, tenuity, absence of solidity, subtility, subtilty, subtlety, sponginess, compressibility, rarefaction,
expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization, vaporization, evaporation, diffusion, gassification, ether, rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight, light, cavernous, spongy, rarefied, unsubstantial, uncompact, incompressed, rarefiable.
Exaggeration
N
exaggeration,
expansion, hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring, high coloring, caricature, caricatura, extravagance, Baron Munchausen, men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale, fish story, gooseberry, storm in a teacup, much ado about nothing, puff, puffery, rant, figure of speech, facon de parler, stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination, flight of fancy, false coloring, aggravation, exaggerated, overwrought, bombastic, hyperbolical, on stilts, fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying, hyperbolically, excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.