guidance

guidance
    n 1: something that provides direction or advice as to a
         decision or course of action [syn: {guidance}, {counsel},
         {counseling}, {counselling}, {direction}]
    2: the act of guiding or showing the way [syn: {guidance},
       {steering}]
    3: the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was
       installed under the direction of the king" [syn: {steering},
       {guidance}, {direction}]
    

Guidance \Guid"ance\, n. [See {Guide}.]
   The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or
   assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.
   [1913 Webster]

         His studies were without guidance and without plan.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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113 Moby Thesaurus words for "guidance":
      abetment, administration, admonition, advice, advisement, advising,
      advocacy, aegis, auspices, authority, backing, briefing, care,
      catechization, caution, caveat, championship, charge, charity,
      coaching, command, conduct, consultation, control, council,
      counsel, countenance, cure, custodianship, custody, didactics,
      direction, edification, education, encouragement, enlightenment,
      exhortation, expostulation, favor, fosterage, goodwill, governance,
      government, guardianship, handling, hands, hortation, husbandry,
      idea, illumination, information, instruction, interest,
      jurisdiction, keeping, lead, leadership, leading, management,
      managery, managing, manipulation, ministry, monition, opinion,
      ordering, oversight, parley, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship,
      patronage, pedagogics, pedagogy, pilotage, private teaching,
      programmed instruction, proposal, protectorship, recommendation,
      reeducation, regulation, remonstrance, rule, running, safe hands,
      schooling, seconding, self-instruction, self-teaching, sponsorship,
      spoon-feeding, steerage, steering, stewardship, suggestion,
      sympathy, teaching, the conn, the helm, the wheel, thought,
      tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, ward, wardenship,
      wardship, warning, watch and ward, wing