What is the opposite of abbreviation?

Umm… long-windedness?

noitaiverbba?

@dalepetrie

Elaborate.

Expansions?

“Please don’t use abbreviations. TY.”

augmentation, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase

Exaggeration.

(Not aware of an official term) decompression, reconstitution, amplification

Extrapolation?

elaboration

I think it would be best to ask for definitions of both terms and abbreviations. The glossary in a book includes both, and its purpose is to give definitions.

Extrapolation is not a correct term, as that involves taking existing data and positing a trend to a condition not included the data set. If the condition is within the data set, a similar process is called interpolation.

Wouldn’t the opposite of an abbreviation be “standard form”?

interpolation. I like that word. Sounds sexy in a geeky way.

According to this thesaurus website the antonyms for “abbreviation include:

augmentation, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase.

Bloviation.

What’s another word for Thesaurus?

What another word for….ah, never mind. I have better manners than that. Usually.

expansion

That’s the standard term that I am familiar with in a high-tech environment that makes heavy use of acronyms and abbreviations. When you first use any abbreviation or acronym, you have to expand it, or provide the expansion.

Both the MLA and Chicago manuals of style just talk about spelling out an abbrieviation or acronym; I happen to think this term is less precise than expansion.

@pdworkin That was gonna be my answer!

Male enhancement.

Instead of DDSFKWVPVPVK you could also say

Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänswitwenversicherungspolicenvermittlerprovisionsvorsteuerabzugsberechtigungsklausel

when you’re in Germany.

OK. I’ll be sure to do that.

What does it mean?

@mattbrowne, that is what I love (one thing ) love) about German. You guys are linguistically fearless, just like the Sanskrit speakers of old, because of the safety of your rules.

Its “acronym” guys