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conveyance

conveyance

1 6.0
Sending information, ideas, or feelings to other people
  • noun
  • /kənˈveɪəns/
translation icon : transmisión
  • Agronomists and social scientists alike have skirted issues of conveyance loss and its impact on cultural evolution.
  • conveyance of information
  • conveyance of meaning

And so you'll find that people mirror the conveyance, right?

Examples

  • The component skills necessary for content knowledge conveyance are contained within the middle levels of the pyramid.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The email was a clear conveyance of the team's ideas and plans for the project.

  • Failure to include tribal governments in such discussions leads to the conveyance of incomplete information.

    Academic text (1999)
  • In Celestina's unique verbal universe, the conveyance of meaning is never circumscribed to words alone.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Effective teaching is essential for the conveyance of knowledge to students.

  • His speech served as a powerful conveyance of his feelings about the importance of community service.

Synonyms

communication
vsconveyance
247 2.3

A message sent from one person or group to another

focuses on the act of moving ideas or feelings rather than the message
transmission
vsconveyance
122 3.6

The sending of information or messages from one person to another

is broader, covering also feelings and ideas not only messages
dissemination
vsconveyance
16 6.6

Spreading information or ideas so many people learn them

is focused on single transfer between people or places rather than wide spread
transmittal
vsconveyance
  • Formal
1 7.5

To send something, often a document, from one person or place to another

is the everyday act beyond formal or official sending
communicating
vsconveyance
1 2.4

Sharing information, thoughts, or feelings with others

describes the act of moving content rather than the ongoing process
transmitting
vsconveyance
1 3.5

An act of sending information from one place to another

is the general act including feelings and broader communication
sending
vsconveyance
1 1.0

To cause a message or document to go somewhere else

includes nonphysical transmission like feelings and ideas beyond delivery
impartation
vsconveyance
8.1

Giving information or skills to someone

covers all types of sending, not limited to teaching or knowledge
imparting
vsconveyance
4.2

An act of giving information or skills to other people

is broader, including nonteaching forms of transmission
informance
vsconveyance
8.1

The act of telling people facts or details

is wider, including emotional or idea transmission not only facts

Compounds

8.2

An official process that legally transfers ownership of property between people

8.6

A signed document that transfers land or a house from one person to another

How Clear

clarification
62 3.3
explanation
1.0
conveyance
1 6.0
message
1.0
suggestion
759 1.4
to hint
136 2.0

Surface Forms

conveyance singular
conveyances plural

Morphology

conveyance = convey (transparent) = convey + ance

Nominalization of 'convey' with '-ance' indicating the act/result of transmitting information, which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Conveyance comes from Latin vehere 'to carry', the same root as vehicle, so a helpful way to remember this sense is to imagine ideas or feelings being 'carried' from one person to another.