THESAURUS
scattering
a few, aloofness, anarchy, attenuation, attenuative, bit, breakup, broadcast, broadcasting, chaos, circumfusion, confusion, crack-up, diffraction, diffractional, diffractive, diffusion, diffusive, dilution, discontinuity, discreteness, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dispersive, disruption, dissemination, disseminative, dissipation, dissipative, dissolution, distribution, distributive, divergence, emanation, entropy, evaporation, exfoliation, expansion, few, fragmentation, handful, hint, incoherence, inconsistency, limited number, nonadhesion, noncohesion, only a few, peppering, piddling few, piddling number, propagation, publication, radiance, radiation, radius, ray, revolution, scaling, scatterment, separateness, shattering, shotgun pattern, small number, smatter, smattering, soupcon, sowing, spatter, spattering, splay, spoke, spread, spreading, sprinkling, strewing, suggestion, too few, trickle, trifle, unadherence, unadhesiveness, untenacity, volatilization
ROGET THESAURUS
scattering
Dispersion
N
nonassemblage, dispersion, dispersion, disjunction, divergence, aspersion,
scattering, dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution, apportionment, spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction, affusion, waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra waveson, unassembled &c (assemble), dispersed, sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread, epidemic, adrift, stray, disheveled, streaming, sparsim, here and there, passim.