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Synonyms & Antonyms of diversion
1
someone or something that provides amusement or enjoyment
- a scavenger hunt was organized as a diversion for the guests at the party
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- carousing,
- conviviality,
- festivity,
- gaiety
- (also gayety),
- hilarity,
- jollification,
- jollity,
- merrymaking,
- reveling
- (or revelling),
- revelry,
- whoopee
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2
the act or activity of providing pleasure or amusement especially for the public
- movies and television became two of the most popular and influential diversions of the 20th century
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3
a turning away from a course or standard
- carefully weighed testimony that did not contain the slightest diversion from the truth
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The first known use of diversion was in 1600
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