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explainability

explainability noun: the state of being explainable.

Noun

explainability (usually uncountable, plural explainabilities)

  1. (usually) The state of being explainable.
    • “There’s this whole area of explainability, interpretability, where people want to understand how stuff works,” said Church. “With the older methods, you can actually get an answer to what’s going on. The latest, greatest stuff is kind of like magic. It works a lot better than the older stuff. But...2025 November 1, Aisha Down, quoting Kenneth Church, “Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    explicability

Synonyms of explainability

Forms of explainability

pluralexplainabilities

Origin of explainability

From explain + -ability.

Questions about explainability

What does explainability mean?
Explainability means the state of being explainable.
What part of speech is explainability?
Explainability is a noun.
What is the plural of explainability?
The plural of explainability is explainabilities.

Words near explainability in the dictionary

  1. expiscatory
  2. explain
  3. explain away
  4. explain'd
  5. explainabilities
  6. explainability
  7. explainable
  8. explaination
  9. explainations
  10. explained
  11. explained away

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