Synonyms for information
ˌɪn fərˈmeɪ ʃənin·for·ma·tion

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1. information

   Education (Latin educere, to lead or draw out) is the systematic development and cultivation of the mind and other natural powers. "Education is the harmonious development of all our faculties. It begins in the nursery, and goes on at school, but does not end there. It continues through life, whether we will or not.... 'Every person,' says Gibbon, 'has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.'" John Lubbock The Use of Life ch. vii, p. 111. [Macmillan & Co. '94.] Instruction, the impartation of knowledge by others (Latin instruere, to build in or into) is but a part of education, often the smallest part. Teaching is the more familiar and less formal word for instruction. Training refers not merely to the impartation of knowledge, but to the exercising of one in actions with the design to form habits. Discipline is systematic and rigorous training, with the idea of subjection to authority and perhaps of punishment. Tuition is the technical term for teaching as the business of an instructor or as in the routine of a school; tuition is narrower than teaching, not, like the latter word, including training. Study is emphatically what one does for himself. We speak of the teaching, training, or discipline, but not of the education or tuition of a dog or a horse. Breeding and nurture include teaching and training, especially as directed by and dependent upon home life and personal association; breeding having reference largely to manners with such qualities as are deemed distinctively characteristic of high birth; nurture (literally nourishing) having more direct reference to moral qualities, not overlooking the physical and mental. Knowledge and learning tell nothing of mental development apart from the capacity to acquire and remember, and nothing whatever of that moral development which is included in education in its fullest and noblest sense; learning, too, may be acquired by one's unaided industry, but any full education must be the result in great part of instruction, training, and personal association. Study is emphatically what one does for himself, and in which instruction and tuition can only point the way, encourage the student to advance, and remove obstacles; vigorous, persevering study is one of the best elements of training. Study is also used in the sense of the thing studied, a subject to be mastered by study, a studious pursuit. Compare KNOWLEDGE; REFINEMENT; WISDOM.

   Compare synonyms for IGNORANT.

   Synonyms:
   breeding, cultivation, culture, development, discipline, education, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, reading, schooling, study, teaching, training, tuition

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, illiteracy

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1. information

   Synonyms:
   instruction, advice, counsel, notice, notification, knowledge

   Antonyms:
   concealment, biding, occultation, mystification, ignorance

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. information, infonoun

   a message received and understood

   Synonyms:
   info, selective information, entropy, data

2. informationnoun

   knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

   Synonyms:
   info, selective information, entropy, data

3. informationnoun

   formal accusation of a crime

   Synonyms:
   info, selective information, entropy, data

4. data, informationnoun

   a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

   "statistical data"

   Synonyms:
   selective information, info, entropy, data

5. information, selective information, entropynoun

   (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome

   "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"

   Synonyms:
   randomness, info, selective information, entropy, data

Matched Categories

1. • Accusation
   • Cognition
   • Communication Theory
   • Information Measure

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1. informationnoun

   Synonyms:
   intelligence, notice, advice

2. informationnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) accusation, complaint

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1. informationnoun

   Synonyms:
   knowledge, intelligence, instruction, (Law) complaint, accusation

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1. List of paraphrases for "information":

   data, intelligence, info, 'information, informational, details, briefing, renseignements, información, news, media, particulars, informing, reporting, knowledge, informative, informations, message, inquiries, background, material, πληροφορίες, informacji, enquiries, materials, indications, detail, informationen, backgrounders, inform, messages, 'informations, informed, feedback, outreach

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1. Herbert Simon, economist:

   What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

2. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake:

   I'm going to make sure that as we get information that we can confirm, we're going to put that information out in the public, i want people to understand that I have no interest in hiding information, holding back information.

3. Keven Kwaku:

   Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'.

4. Pamela Wheelock:

   We need to have enough information about a suspect so that somebody can reasonably use that information to help keep themselves safe, unless we have a sufficiency of information, we’re not actually going to use any suspect information.

5. Ursula K. LeGuin:

   When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.