levittämistä

Levittämistä is a Finnish noun form meaning the act or process of spreading or dissemination. It is the partitive singular form of the noun levittäminen, which is derived from the verb levittää, meaning to spread, scatter, or disseminate. Levittämistä, as a partitive, is used when the action is indefinite, partial, or described as a process rather than a complete whole, or when it functions as the object of a verb.

In usage, levittämistä appears in legal, academic, and everyday language to refer to dissemination or spread in various senses. For example: "Tiedon levittämistä koskevat säännökset ovat maakohtaisia" (the regulations concerning the dissemination of information are country-specific). Another example: "Sairauksien levittämistä pyritään estämään rokotteilla ja hygieniä edistävillä toimenpiteillä" (the spread of diseases is aimed to be prevented by vaccines and hygiene measures). The partitive form is common after verbs that require a partitive object or in phrases emphasizing the ongoing nature of the activity.

Contextually, levittämistä covers both physical spreading (such as the spread of substances or seeds) and non-physical spreading (such as information, rumors, or diseases). In public health, politics, and media, it appears in formulations describing measures to control or promote dissemination. The term is closely related to levittäminen, its base nominal form, with levittämistä operating as the inflected object in contexts where the specific amount or scope of spreading is not fully delimited.

See also: levittäminen, levittämisestä.