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Elucidating vs Explaining - What's the difference?

elucidating | explaining |

As verbs the difference between elucidating and explaining

is that elucidating is while explaining is .

As a noun explaining is

explanation.

elucidating

English

Verb

(head)

    • explaining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • explanation
    • You've got some explaining to do!
  • * 1973 , Abraham Kaplan, The conduct of inquiry (page 327)
    • Among these various explainings there is one set which it is comparatively easy to distinguish. I call it semantic explanation: making clear a meaning.