direction - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

the act of setting and holding a course

Synonyms

• direction
• guidance
• steering

More generic

• control

More specific

• aim
• celestial guidance
• command guidance
• driving
• inertial guidance
• inertial navigation
• navigation
• pilotage
• piloting
• terrestrial guidance

Noun

the act of managing something

Synonyms

• direction
• management

More generic

• social control

More specific

• administration
• authorisation
• authorization
• canalisation
• canalization
• channelisation
• channelization
• conducting
• database management
• disenfranchisement
• disposal
• empowerment
• finance
• guidance
• handling
• homemaking
• misconduct
• misdirection
• mismanagement
• oversight
• steering
• superintendence
• supervising
• supervision
• treatment

Noun

the concentration of attention or energy on something

Synonyms

• centering
• direction
• focal point
• focus
• focusing
• focussing

More generic

• absorption
• concentration
• engrossment
• immersion

More specific

• particularism

Noun

a general course along which something has a tendency to develop

Synonyms

• direction

More generic

• disposition
• inclination
• tendency

More specific

• tenor

Noun

something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action

Synonyms

• counsel
• counseling
• counselling
• direction
• guidance

More generic

• content
• message
• subject matter
• substance

More specific

• career counseling
• confidential information
• cynosure
• genetic counseling
• guideline
• hint
• lead
• marriage counseling
• road map
• steer
• tip
• wind

Noun

a message describing how something is to be done

Synonyms

• direction
• instruction

More generic

• content
• message
• subject matter
• substance

More specific

• address
• destination
• formula
• markup
• misdirection
• name and address
• prescript
• prescription
• recipe
• rubric
• rule
• stage direction
• style
• system command

Noun

a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something

Synonyms

• charge
• commission
• direction

More generic

• bid
• bidding
• command
• dictation

More specific

• misdirection

Noun

a line leading to a place or point

Synonyms

• direction
• way

More generic

• itinerary
• path
• route

More specific

• aim
• bearing
• course
• east-west direction
• heading
• north-south direction
• qibla
• tendency
• trend

Noun

the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves

Synonyms

• direction

More generic

• position
• spatial relation

More specific

• compass north
• compass point
• east
• frontage
• leeward
• magnetic north
• north
• northeast
• northwest
• opposition
• orientation
• point
• seaward
• south
• southeast
• southwest
• west
• windward

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