public discussion

1. 1.

   free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest

   “such a proposal deserves thorough public discussion”

   Synonymsventilation

   Broaderdiscussion

Questions about public discussion

What does public discussion mean?

public discussion means "free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest".

What is another word for public discussion?

Close synonyms include ventilation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is public discussion a common word?

public discussion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.