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There is a noun for "receive": reception.

What about "send"? Is there a noun for this verb?

It's about sending SMS messages, so I wish to underline the outgoing nature of the message.

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    Sendention? Maybe we should stick with transmission.
    – bib
    Commented Jan 27, 2014 at 22:54
  • Welcome to the site! Do you have a context in mind? Depending on context, many words could fit your purpose. As Bib says, transmission, but also shipment, mission, transfer, messaging, sending, despatch...
    – Cerberus - Reinstate Monica
    Commented Jan 27, 2014 at 23:00
  • Not sending oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sending
    – Kris
    Commented Jan 9, 2015 at 7:17

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I agree with bib. Transmission is probably the best comparison here. Transmission comes from the Latin noun transmissio, which comes from the Latin verb mitto (mittere) meaning I send (to send).

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    I ended up using "sending", which is also a noun, but the accepted answer is still correct.
    – kolypto
    Commented Jan 27, 2014 at 23:26
  • There's a related post dealing with the meaning of transmission in various contexts and how it differs sometimes from a message sent. Please search previous posts.
    – Kris
    Commented Jan 28, 2014 at 6:49
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Possible nouns linked to send, are 'conveyance' or 'consignment'. One can, also, rather than 'send' the goods, 'consign' them.

And that of 'receive', in the case of goods is not 'reception' but 'receipt'. I find myself 'in receipt' of letters and goods, never in 'reception' of them.

I am however, from time to time in 'reception' of visitors.

So I think it's 'receipt' for goods, 'reception' for people.

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It depends on just what is being sent. A letter once sent becomes a missive, a word built on the soundest of etymological foundations.

But if you prefer epistles over letters, we may have to fish from a different etymological lake.

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  • Too smart for me :D
    – kolypto
    Commented Jan 27, 2014 at 23:26
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In some contexts, you can use "emission".

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    – choster
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 3:34
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Have you considered "texting" and "text messaging" as possible alternative terms to "SMS sending?"

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Consider the word "dispatch" (noun, 2d: "the act of dispatching: such as a sending off")

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