discussion (n.)

• airing
• analysis
• argument
• article
• audience
• bargaining
• canvassing
• causerie
• chat
• colloquium
• colloquy
• conclave
• confab
• confabulation
• conference
• confrontation
• congress
• consideration
• consultation
• convention
• conversation
• council
• debate
• deliberation
• descant
• dialectic
• dialogue
• discourse
• disquisition
• dissertation
• essay
• etude
• examination
• exchange
• excursus
• exposition
• feature
• forum
• homily
• huddle
• interview
• investigation
• lucubration
• meeting
• memoir
• monograph
• morceau
• negotiations
• note
• outline
• palaver
• paper
• paragraph
• parley
• piece
• powwow
• prolegomenon
• rap
• review
• screed
• scrutiny
• seance
• seminar
• session
• sitting
• sketch
• study
• summit
• survey
• symposium
• talk
• theme
• thesis
• tract
• treatise
• treatment
• ventilation