- discussion, treatment, discourse - an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"
--1 is a kind of communication, communicating
--1 has particulars:detail; dilation; consideration; talk; expansion, enlargement, elaboration Derived form: verb discuss1 - discussion, give-and-take, word - an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it"
--2 is a kind of speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication
--2 has particulars:argument, argumentation, debate; deliberation; conference, group discussion; panel discussion; postmortem; public discussion, ventilation; negotiation, dialogue, talks Derived form: verb discuss2