ventilation
3 synonyms for ventilation, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — The process of clearing out stale or unhealthy air and letting fresh air in.
Synonyms
Everyday swaps
Common words most readers know — safe in any writing.
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
Ventilation is borrowed from Middle French ventilation, from Old French ventilacion, from Late Latin ventilatio, from Latin ventilo; morphologically, it is ventilate plus -ion.
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