Explicitness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt.nəs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Explicitness is a noun meaning The state or characteristic of being explicit.
Meaning
The state or characteristic of being explicit.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- explicitnesses
Antonyms for explicitness
Common opposites include implicitness, inexplicitness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include inexplicitness, directness, expressness, implicitness, clearness, specifiedness.
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