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▸ noun: (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
▸ noun: (countable) A conversation.
▸ noun: (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
▸ noun: (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
▸ noun: (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
▸ noun: (obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To debate.
▸ verb: To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To produce or emit (musical sounds).
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discussion,
discuss,
converse,
preaching,
sermon,
treatment,
talk about,
discoursive,
discursive,
interlocution,
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public,
political,
philosophical,
dominant,
scientific,
moral,
academic,
religious,
critical,
indirect,
colonial
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