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Antonyms for extinction
ɪkˈstɪŋk ʃənex·tinc·tion

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  1. extinction

    Antonyms:
    origination, inception, planting, birth, fife, course, operation, action, exercise, prosperity, continuance, survival

    Synonyms:
    destruction, stifling, suffocation, death, cessation, annihilation, obsolescence

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. extinctionnoun

    no longer active; extinguished

    "the extinction of the volcano"

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

  2. extinction, defunctnessnoun

    no longer in existence

    "the extinction of a species"

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

  3. extinctionnoun

    the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

  4. extinction, exterminationnoun

    complete annihilation

    "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, liquidation, extinguishing

  5. extinction, experimental extinctionnoun

    a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

  6. extinction, extinguishing, quenchingnoun

    the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

    "the extinction of the lights"

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

How to use extinction in a sentence?

  1. Father Muyessir al-Mukhalisi:

    We are threatened with extinction. This is a harsh word but every day we are being depleted. Our people are traveling, migrating.

  2. John Bates:

    These stresses haven't necessarily doomed anything to extinction, but they're definitely changing the conditions that all of these organisms are dealing with, and that may have really important ramifications -- and anything like that has potentially big implications for humans, too.

  3. David Mooney:

    There is a massive decline in the number of funds, and no replacements, there has been a near 'extinction event' in commodities hedge funds.

  4. Tierra Curry:

    Climate change threatens life on Earth, we have to fight climate change and biodiversity loss at the same time. Climate changes gets a lot more attention than extinction, but extinction is a big problem.

  5. Gilad Bino:

    The platypuses are dying in many rivers and the situation seems to be getting worse, these are evolutionary relics unique to Australia, and factors such as the increasing frequency and duration of droughts are definitely going to drive many populations to extinction.

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