disseminates

Scatters information abroad

Disseminates means spreads widely, especially information, ideas, or knowledge.

The word suggests deliberate distribution to a broad audience: The organization disseminates research findings through its website.

News outlets disseminate stories, governments disseminate propaganda, and universities disseminate scholarship.

The underlying image is of scattering seeds—spreading something so it takes root in many places.

information

spreads

Distributes over area

distributes · shares · transmits · communicates · propagates · relays · announces · reports · publicizes · releases

biological

spreads

Distributes over area

  • seedsPlant embryos in casings
  • sporesAsexual reproductive bodies
  • pollenFloral reproductive grains

germinates · scatters · disperses · propagates · reproduces · fertilizes · windborne · carriers · vectors · colonies

propaganda

spreads

Distributes over area

misinformation · disinformation · campaigns · influence · indoctrination · rhetoric · leaflets · broadcasts · manipulation · agitprop

academic

publishes

Releases for distribution

papers · studies · journals · citations · knowledge · data · results · conclusions · theories · methodology

Categories
Opposites
information flow direction

disseminatesgathers

Accumulates or collects

collects · accumulates · amasses · aggregates · compiles

visibility/access

disseminatesconceals

Keeps from being seen

hides · suppresses · withholds · censors · obscures

scope of distribution

disseminatesconcentrates

Directs sustained attention

contains · localizes · confines · limits · restricts

Family

disseminate, dissemination, disseminated, disseminator, disseminating, disseminators, disseminations

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G