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explicitness

/ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt.nəs/

explicitness noun: the state or characteristic of being explicit.

Noun

explicitness (usually uncountable, plural explicitnesses)

  1. (usually) 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.1973, Thomas Cable, “A Garland of Pomposities: Comment on Halle-Keyser Prosody”, in College English, volume 34, number 4, page 593
    • 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.1986, Ira B. Nadel, Biography: Fiction, Fact and Form, →ISBN, page 85

explicitness meaning in Tamil and Kannada

explicitness in Tamil

திட்டம்

explicitness in Kannada

ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟತೆ, ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ

Antonyms of explicitness

Forms of explicitness

pluralexplicitnesses

Origin of explicitness

From explicit + -ness.

Questions about explicitness

What does explicitness mean?
Explicitness means the state or characteristic of being explicit.
What is explicitness in Tamil?
Explicitness in Tamil is திட்டம். See Explicitness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is explicitness?
Explicitness is a noun.
How do you pronounce explicitness?
Explicitness is pronounced /ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt.nəs/.
What is the plural of explicitness?
The plural of explicitness is explicitnesses.

Words near explicitness in the dictionary

  1. explicitize
  2. explicitized
  3. explicitizes
  4. explicitizing
  5. explicitly
  6. explicitness
  7. explicitnesses
  8. explicits
  9. explicted
  10. explodability
  11. explodable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: explicitness (page history and authors); explicitness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); explicitness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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