EXEMPLIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exemplification mean? 

• EXEMPLIFICATION (noun)
  The noun EXEMPLIFICATION has 2 senses:

1. showing by example

2. a representational or typifying form or model

  Familiarity information: EXEMPLIFICATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXEMPLIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing by example

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

exemplification; illustration

Hypernyms ("exemplification" is a kind of...):

demo; demonstration (a visual presentation showing how something works)

Derivation:

exemplify (clarify by giving an example of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A representational or typifying form or model

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

exemplification; typification

Hypernyms ("exemplification" is a kind of...):

representational process (any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exemplification"):

picture (a typical example of some state or quality)

Derivation:

exemplify (be characteristic of)

 Context examples 

She seized, with an unsteady hand, the precious manuscript, for half a glance sufficed to ascertain written characters; and while she acknowledged with awful sensations this striking exemplification of what Henry had foretold, resolved instantly to peruse every line before she attempted to rest.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)