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lactation has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the period following birth during which milk is secreted
“lactation normally continues until weaning”
the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands
feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for lactation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.