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Explaining vs Justifying - What's the difference?

explaining | justifying |

As verbs the difference between explaining and justifying

is that explaining is while justifying is .

As a noun explaining

is explanation.

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.

    justifying

    English

    Verb

    (head)