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explanatoriness

explanatoriness noun: the quality of being explanatory.

Noun

explanatoriness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being explanatory.
    • 3 was that computer proofs may tend to be less explanatory than traditional proofs because they are more disjunctive, and disjunctiveness reduces explanatoriness.2008 May 30, Alan Baker, “Experimental Mathematics”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, →DOI

Origin of explanatoriness

From explanatory + -ness.

Questions about explanatoriness

What does explanatoriness mean?
Explanatoriness means the quality of being explanatory.
What part of speech is explanatoriness?
Explanatoriness is a noun.

Words near explanatoriness in the dictionary

  1. explanations
  2. explanative
  3. explanatively
  4. explanator
  5. explanatorily
  6. explanatoriness
  7. explanators
  8. explanatory
  9. explanatory dictionaries
  10. explanatory dictionary
  11. explanatory fiction

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