Addition
Addition noun - The act or process of becoming greater in number.
Usage example: how do you account for the addition of more paint stains on your shirt after you put on a smock?
Contracting is an antonym for addition.
Contracting
Contracting noun - The act or process of reducing the size or volume of something by or as if by pressing.
Addition is an antonym for contracting.
Both words in one sentence
- In addition, medicines such as Stimpaks have the side effect of increasing one or more of these, and contracting Parasites causes you to require twice as much food to stave off hunger.
Source: Wizard Needs Food Badly
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Contracting and Addition. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/addition/contracting
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