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Explaining vs Explicative - What's the difference?

explaining | explicative |

As a verb explaining

is .

As a noun explaining

is explanation.

As an adjective explicative is

explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.

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.

    explicative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
    • The witness was explicative in explaining to the police what he saw.

    Synonyms

    * explicatory

    Related terms

    * explicate * explication ----