dissertation

Roget category 595

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#595. Dissertation

noun

dissertation, treatise, essay — thesis, theme — monograph, tract, tractate^†, tractation^† — discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect^† — excursus.
commentary, review, critique, criticism, article — leader, leading article — editorial — running commentary.
investigation etc. (inquiry) 461 — study etc. (consideration) 451 — discussion etc. (reasoning) 476 — exposition etc. (explanation) 522.
commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer.

verb

expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject^†, descant upon a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject — treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject.
hold forth [oral dissertation], discourse, delve into.

adjective

discursive, discoursive^† — disquisitionary^† — expository.

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