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explanation
  1. The act or process of explaining.
  2. Something that explains, makes understandable.
  3. A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Scott provided a simplified, yet clear, explanation of how personal biases can subconsciously affect our judgment.”
      “I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for why he's late yet again.”
      “One explanation for such paradoxical behaviours is that they are motivated by visceral factors relating to physical and emotional drives.”
explication
  1. The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
  2. The sense given by an expositor.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The statistical analyses and their detailed explication will be most appropriate for researchers who share this particular academic niche.”
      “There is a link therefore in Heidegger's explication of the meaning of Dasein to Ricoeur's own elucidation of the meaning of the subject.”
      “Any attempt to give a final explication of the meaning of a text is doomed.”
explainer
  1. Agent noun of explain; one who explains.
  2. A guide that explains a topic.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The Times itself has its 14,000 word explainer that could be bound into a book.”
      “The drama of his stylistic transformation, from explainer to invoker, says something about the oddity and confidence of this poet.”
      “There is, in fact, no more adroit explainer in our poetry than Pinsky, who lifts the analytic lyric to sometimes sublime heights.”
explaination
  1. Obsolete form of explanation.
  2. Misspelling of explanation.
explanationism
  1. (philosophy) A philosophical system where beliefs are justified by their usefulness in explaining.
explanans
  1. A collection of propositions that, taken together, explain another proposition (the explanandum).
  2. Examples:
    1. “Explanation holds only when the explanans is conceptually related to the explanandum, and this can occur only at the same level of function.”
      “As it happens, clouds are natural candidates for the explanans in a scientific account.”
      “The discussion thus divides between thermodynamics being an explanandum or explanans.”
explicandum
  1. (logic) That which is to be explained or explicated
  2. Examples:
    1. “Forms of environmentalism abound, and often the text recognizes that explicans and explicandum can readily change places.”
      “Such elucidation would only be plausible if we understood the explicans more clearly than the explicandum.”
explicator
  1. a person or thing who explicates
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He has gone, one might say, from explicator to gnostic namer, from the secular, discursive Horatian thinker-poet to a more compressed priest-like voice, intent on Mystery.”
      “The orchestra is always an explicator, never a mere support.”
      “They display great subtlety and demonstrate Gros's gifts as a marvelous reader and explicator of nuances and difficulties.”
explanationist
  1. One who subscribes to explanationism.
explainee
  1. Someone who receives an explanation.
explanatoriness
explainability
  1. The state of being explainable.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The explainability of the theory was crucial in convincing the skeptics.”
explicableness
  1. The quality of being explicable.
explanandum
  1. That which is to be explained
  2. Examples:
    1. “Explanation holds only when the explanans is conceptually related to the explanandum, and this can occur only at the same level of function.”
      “In the short intervening period sociology has become obsessed with biology, and biology is asked to be the universal explanandum of humanity.”
      “So this argument for perceptualism proposes an explanans to a non-neutral explanandum.”
explicanda
  1. plural of explicandum
explaining
explanator
  1. One who explains.
explanationists
  1. plural of explanationist
explainabilities
explainations
  1. plural of explaination
explananda
  1. plural of explanandum
  2. Examples:
    1. “First, it is important to distinguish explananda of different types, and, in particular, to distinguish appetites from emotions.”
      “Rules are the explanantia in his functional economics, but the explananda of his evolutionary economics.”
      “What is more, the explananda and explanantia in covering-law explanations are descriptions of events, etc.”
explanations
  1. plural of explanation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Underlying these explanations is an acceptance of the foundational ideas of the Antigonish Movement.”
      “But neither can conventional political explanations account for this policy choice.”
      “The glossary contains explanations of abbreviations and terms used in this pamphlet.”
explications
  1. plural of explication
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The mechanistic explications of human behaviour don't measure up adequately with the finalities of human life.”
      “When he leaves all else behind, Beals' explications are fresh and revealing.”
      “This is a tricky assignment, because one may prefer the explications or think them more important.”
explanators
  1. plural of explanator
explicators
explainings
explainees
  1. plural of explainee
explainers
  1. plural of explainer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Let's show the world that we can be lucid and enthusiastic explainers of recondite ideas, not merely the flamboyant show-offs that unfair stereotypes so often paint us to be.”
      “Johnson is an excellent explainer, but unlike some of our most esteemed explainers, he can really write.”
      “Mostly I think they are good explainers and when I'm older I want to do a degree.”
explanantia
  1. plural of explanans
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