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Sharing

n. kind, joyful warm

What it means

Meaning 1

The act of giving others access to resources, time, knowledge, or experience.

Reach for it when praising generous access that respects consent and ownership

Sharing tools allowed three small farms to avoid new debt.

Meaning 2

The act of communicating information, feelings, or experience.

Reach for it when describing voluntary disclosure suited to the audience

Her sharing of the failed results saved another team a month.

Words to choose between 9

By register, from playful at the top to literary at the bottom, and by meaning across. Tap a word to see when it fits.
Meaning 1Meaning 2
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professional

Meaning 1: The act of giving others access to resources, time, knowledge, or experience.

  • everyday

    lending

    Fits when temporary use with expected return is central

    Careful Lending is only one kind of sharing.

  • warm

    generosity

    Fits when willing ample giving is central

    Careful Generosity can transfer ownership rather than share use.

  • professional

    co-ownership

    Fits when legal joint ownership is exact

    Careful Sharing does not always confer ownership.

  • professional

    distribution

    Fits when allocation among recipients is the practical action

    Careful Distribution can be unequal or compulsory.

Meaning 2: The act of communicating information, feelings, or experience.

  • everyday

    exchange

    Fits when information or experience moves both ways

    Careful Sharing need not receive anything in return.

  • warm

    confiding

    Fits when private trust supports personal disclosure

    Careful Confiding is intimate and unsuitable for public data.

  • warm

    storytelling

    Fits when experience is communicated through narrative

    Careful Storytelling can reshape facts and is not every form of sharing.

  • professional

    communication

    Fits when transfer of information is the broad idea

    Careful Communication can be one-way and impersonal.

  • professional

    disclosure

    Fits when making information known is precise

    Careful Disclosure can be mandatory or harmful.

Opposites 4

  • hoarding
  • withholding
  • secrecy
  • silence

Common phrases 4

  • resource sharing

    Resource sharing gave every workshop access to the expensive saw.

  • knowledge sharing

    Knowledge sharing reduced repeated maintenance errors.

  • sharing of experience

    The sharing of experience made the new carers feel less isolated.

  • fair sharing

    Fair sharing begins with agreement about the scarce resource.

Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: Persent101, American accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Updated