COMPOSITION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for COMPOSITION?

Need another word that means the same as “composition”? Find 75 synonyms and 30 related words for “composition” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Composition” are: paper, report, theme, typography, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music, composing, constitution, make-up, makeup, authorship, penning, writing, configuration, structure, construction, conformation, formation, form, framework, fabric, anatomy, arrangement, organization, format, layout, amalgamation, amalgam, merger, union, blend, mixture, mix, mingling, meld, fusion, fusing, compound, alloy, marriage, weave, coalescence, coalition, pooling, integration, conjunction, incorporation, synthesis, composite, concoction, admixture, work of art, work, creation, musical work, oeuvre, devising, making up, thinking up, framing, formulation, production, fashioning, origination, invention, compilation, essay, article, text, study, piece of writing, disposition, design

Composition as a Noun

Definitions of "Composition" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “composition” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A creative work, especially a poem or piece of music.
• Art and technique of printing with movable type.
• The action or art of producing a creative work such as a poem or piece of music.
• A musical work that has been created.
• Mental constitution; character.
• The successive application of functions to a variable, the value of the first function being the argument of the second, and so on.
• An essay, especially one written by a school or college student.
• The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole.
• The nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.
• Musical creation.
• A thing composed of various elements.
• A mixture of ingredients.
• A legal agreement to pay a sum in lieu of a larger debt or other obligation.
• Something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole.
• A compound artificial substance or material.
• The process of finding the resultant of a number of forces.
• The action of putting things together; formation or construction.
• The act of creating written works.
• The artistic arrangement of the parts of a picture.
• A sum paid in lieu of a larger debt.
• An essay (especially one written as an assignment.
• The way in which someone or something is composed.
• The preparation of text for printing by setting up characters or by establishing its style and appearance electronically.

Synonyms of "Composition" as a noun (75 Words)

admixture	The action of adding an ingredient to something else. Green with an admixture of black.
alloy	A metal made by combining two or more metallic elements, especially to give greater strength or resistance to corrosion. Alloy wheels.
amalgam	An alloy of mercury with another metal usually silver used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams. His theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas.
amalgamation	The action, process, or result of combining or uniting. An amalgamation of two separate companies.
anatomy	A detailed analysis. Human anatomy.
arrangement	An organized structure for arranging or classifying. Mozart s symphonies in arrangements for cello and piano.
article	The definite or indefinite article. Small household articles.
authorship	The state or fact of being the writer of a book, article, or document, or the creator of a work of art. The single authorship of the book gives it a uniformity of style and a proper balance between chapters.
blend	The act of blending components together thoroughly. Smog is a blend of smoke and fog.
coalescence	The joining or merging of elements to form one mass or whole. A sophisticated coalescence of melodies and harmonies.
coalition	The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts. They had a taste of government in coalition with the Social Democrats.
compilation	The action or process of producing something, especially a list or book, by assembling information collected from other sources. There are thirty three stories in this compilation.
composing	Musical creation.
composite	A composite constructional material. The next decade may well see the introduction of more designer polymers and composites.
compound	An enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient. The air smelled like a compound of diesel and petrol fumes.
concoction	Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients. She has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories.
configuration	The fixed three-dimensional relationship of the atoms in a molecule, defined by the bonds between them. The PC comes with a removable hard disk drive as part of the standard configuration.
conformation	A symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing. The judges run their hands over the dog s body and legs checking its conformation.
conjunction	The grammatical relation between linguistic units words or phrases or clauses that are connected by a conjunction. A conjunction of favourable political and economic circumstances.
constitution	The constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states. The constitution of a police authority.
construction	Drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem. During the construction we had to take a detour.
creation	The human act of creating. Creation of a coalition government.
design	A decorative pattern. Good design can help the reader understand complicated information.
devising	A gift of real property by will. The devising of plans.
disposition	The action of arranging people or things in a particular way. A swelling with a disposition to rupture.
essay	A short piece of writing on a particular subject. A misjudged essay in job preservation.
fabric	Cloth or other material produced by weaving or knitting fibres. Decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building s fabric.
fashioning	Characteristic or habitual practice. The fashioning of pots and pans.
form	An ability to perform well. A form of words.
format	The organization of information according to preset specifications usually for computer processing. A data file in binary format.
formation	A group of people or things in a particular arrangement or pattern. The formation of pseudopods.
formulation	A material or mixture prepared according to a formula. Post shave formulations which keep skin soft.
framework	A hypothetical description of a complex entity or process. Providing a factual framework for future research.
framing	The action of framing something. The framing of judicial decrees.
fusing	Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant.
fusion	The process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity. Fusion cuisine.
incorporation	Including by incorporating. A law allowing incorporation as a company.
integration	The act of combining into an integral whole. Mathematical integrations.
invention	Used as a title for a short piece of music. Medieval inventions included spectacles for reading and the spinning wheel.
layout	A thing arranged or set out in a particular way. The road layout.
make-up	An event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event.
makeup	The way in which someone or something is composed. He missed the test and had to take a makeup.
making up	An attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something.
marriage	The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce. Her music is a marriage of funk jazz and hip hop.
meld	A thing formed by melding a combination. A meld of many contributions.
merger	The combination of two or more commercial companies. Merger can be applied for when the freehold and leasehold estates become vested in the same person.
mingling	The action of people mingling and coming into contact. All the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties.
mix	A version of a recording in which the component tracks are mixed in a different way from the original. The school has a good social mix.
mixture	An event that combines things in a mixture. He was a curious mixture an unpredictable man.
musical composition	A play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing.
musical work	A play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing.
oeuvre	A work of art, music, or literature. He studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre.
opus	A separate composition or set of compositions. He was writing an opus on Mexico.
organization	The way in which the elements of a whole are arranged. His organization of the work force was very efficient.
origination	The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new. There are a number of theories on the origination of the name.
paper	The physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher. You need to test your students mark their papers and place them in the right class.
penning	A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes.
piece	A figure or token used to make moves in a board game. Indicate which piece or pawn is taken.
piece of music	An artistic or literary composition.
piece of writing	A work of art of some artistic value.
pooling	Something resembling a pool of liquid.
production	The overall sound of a musical recording, as determined by the way in which it is produced. The record s production is gloriously relaxed.
report	The act of informing by verbal report. The report of his speech.
structure	The quality of being organized. Artists must study the structure of the human body.
study	A room used for reading and writing and studying. A study of a sample of 5 000 children.
synthesis	Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect. The synthesis of intellect and emotion in his work.
text	A textbook. The professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy.
theme	(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. The theme is announced in the first measures.
thinking up	The process of using your mind to consider something carefully.
typography	The art or procedure of arranging type or processing data and printing from it.
union	A part of a flag with an emblem symbolizing national union typically occupying the upper corner next to the staff. A currency union between the two countries.
weave	A hairstyle created by weaving pieces of real or artificial hair into a person’s existing hair, typically in order to increase its length or thickness. Trailers show him with dyed blond hair and in one scene a flowing blond weave.
work	A place where work is done. I was returning home from work on a packed subway.
work of art	Applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading.
writing	The activity or skill of writing. The writings of Gertrude Stein.

Usage Examples of "Composition" as a noun

• He had been released by deed on making a composition with the creditors.
• Composition tiles.
• Harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art.
• The composition of forces.
• None of the other photographs shared this particular composition.
• Chopin's most romantic compositions.
• The social composition of villages.
• A theory is a composition of interrelated facts.
• Persons who have a touch of madness in their composition.
• He envied the composition of their faculty.
• We had a class composition, ‘My Best Friend.
• The composition of a new government was announced in November.
• He got an A on his composition.
• The composition is written in four movements.
• Composition of functions, when defined, is associative.
• An external contractor providing computerized composition and typesetting.
• The technical aspects of composition.
• Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions.

Associations of "Composition" (30 Words)

administration	The government in power. The company went into administration.
architecture	An architectural product or work. Architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use.
atonal	Not written in any key or mode. Atonal music may be written by obscuring tonal structures or by ignoring conventional harmonies altogether.
civilian	Relating to civilians. Civilian clothing.
component	Each of two or more forces, velocities, or other vectors acting in different directions which are together equivalent to a given vector. He resolved the motion into horizontal and vertical components.
compose	Form the substance of. The first sentence is so hard to compose.
comprise	Include or contain; have as a component. These few men comprise his entire army.
consist	Be consistent with. What does this dish consist of.
constitute	To compose or represent. His failure to act constituted a breach of duty.
coordinate	Form a coordinate bond to an atom or molecule. These activities coordinate well.
design	Create the design for create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner. The coach had a design on the doors.
disguise	The act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance. I told them you were a policewoman in disguise.
disguised	Concealed or obscured; made unrecognizable. Are all of your novels disguised autobiography.
element	Each of more than one hundred substances that cannot be chemically interconverted or broken down into simpler substances and are primary constituents of matter Each element is distinguished by its atomic number i e the number of protons in the nuclei of its atoms. A component or constituent element of a system.
factor	With numeral a sunscreen of the sun protection factor specified. A quantum computer can factor the number 15.
governmental	Relating to or denoting the government of a country or state. A governmental agency.
harmonize	Bring into consonance or accord. The colors don t harmonize.
lipstick	Form by tracing with lipstick. The clown had lipsticked circles on his cheeks.
makeup	Cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance. The two teams played a makeup one week later.
module	Each of a set of independent units of study or training that can be combined in a number of ways to form a course at a college or university. Spacelab an extra module for the shuttle will quadruple the experimental facilities on board.
orchestrate	Plan or coordinate the elements of (a situation) to produce a desired effect, especially surreptitiously. The situation has been orchestrated by a tiny minority.
organization	The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something. He was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department.
organizational	Of or relating to an organization. Organizational structure.
organize	Arrange systematically; order. Can you help me organize my files.
reconcile	Make (one thing) compatible with (another. It is not necessary to reconcile the cost accounts to the financial accounts.
redefine	Give a new or different definition of (a word. She redefined his duties.
reorganize	Organize anew. The company reorganized into fewer key areas.
system	A method of choosing one’s procedure in gambling. He bought a new stereo system.
systematize	Arrange according to a system or reduce to a system. Systematize our scientific knowledge.
typography	The style and appearance of printed matter.