Synonyms for propagation
prop·a·ga·tion

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1. propagation, extensionnoun

   the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

   Synonyms:
   extension, multiplication, denotation, annex, lengthiness, reference, filename extension, extension phone, file name extension, wing, generation, annexe, prolongation, university extension, telephone extension, extension service, elongation

2. generation, multiplication, propagationnoun

   the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

   Synonyms:
   genesis, multiplication, times, contemporaries, extension, generation, coevals

3. propagationnoun

   the movement of a wave through a medium

   Synonyms:
   generation, extension, multiplication

Matched Categories

1. • Physical Phenomenon
   • Reproduction

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1. propagationnoun

   Synonyms:
   multiplication, increase, continuance

2. propagationnoun

   Synonyms:
   dissemination, diffusion, extension, enlargement

3. propagationnoun

   Synonyms:
   generation, procreation, breeding

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1. List of paraphrases for "propagation":

   spread, multiplication, propagating, spreading, propagate, dissemination, spillover, lrtp

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1. Benjamin Franklin:

   All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

2. French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn:

   This is the first fatality by the coronavirus outside Asia, the first death in Europe, we have to get our health system ready to face a possible pandemic propagation of the virus, and therefore the spreading of the virus across France.

3. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar:

   Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

4. Julio Castro:

   My feeling is that most of those children are not receiving vaccine, and we are( seeing) a modified-vaccine virus, and the alarming thing is that there's propagation, which means that the population there is not ready to tackle this disease, and the virus could spread very quickly.

5. Fyodor Dostoevsky:

   By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.