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Synonyms for determination

Synonyms for determination: finding, decision and purpose. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

3 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun

The 3 synonyms for determination

Interchangeable with determination in this sense

Audited under determination's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one determination carries in that sense.

findingnoun, in the sense "the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name determination as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

decisiondecision is a noun in the sense "a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration"
purposepurpose is a noun in the sense "the quality of being determined to do or achieve something"

The first group is filed under determination's own sense. The second reach determination from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineActions

the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation

The determination of molecular structures.

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The true synonym

finding

Same sentence, swapped: The finding of molecular structures.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where determination stands in the sentence above.

purpose
breakthrough
spying

Where determination turns up in the game

determination is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play determination

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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