EXPLICITNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does explicitness mean? 

• EXPLICITNESS (noun)
  The noun EXPLICITNESS has 1 sense:

1. clarity as a consequence of being explicit

  Familiarity information: EXPLICITNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPLICITNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clarity as a consequence of being explicit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

clarity; clearness; limpidity; lucidity; lucidness; pellucidity (free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression)

Attribute:

explicit; expressed (precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication)

implicit; inexplicit (implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something)

Antonym:

inexplicitness (unclearness by virtue of not being explicit)

Derivation:

explicit (precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication)

explicit (in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term)