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explicitness

noun
/ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt.nəs/

Etymology

From explicit + -ness.

  1. derived from explicitus — “disentangled, easy”
  2. borrowed from explicite
  3. formed as explicitness — “explicit + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being explicit.

    • Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness.
    • It furthermore confirms, as James A. Davies has shown, that when drawn to contemporaries, Forster did not preimpose ideas upon his material as he did with those of the past, but presented 'honest revelation' bordering on explicitness.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for explicitness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA