Utterance vs Explanation - What's the difference?
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An act of uttering.
* (John Milton)
Something spoken.
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The ability to speak.
Manner of speaking.
* Bible, Acts ii. 4
* (John Keats)
(obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
(obsolete) Putting in circulation.
The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
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*:And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid
The act or process of explaining.
Something that explains, makes understandable.
(euphemistic) An excuse, apologetic justification not based on enough evidence.
As nouns the difference between utterance and explanation
is that utterance is an act of uttering or utterance can be the utmost extremity (of a fight etc) while explanation is the act or process of explaining.utterance
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Alternative forms
* utteraunceEtymology 1
FromNoun
(en noun)- at length gave utterance to these words
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances . He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance : that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
- Theybegan to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance .
- O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
- (Francis Bacon)
Quotations
* Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. — Thomas HillEtymology 2
From (etyl) oultrance.Noun
(en noun)References
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* *explanation
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(wikipedia explanation)Noun
(en noun)- The explanation was long and drawn-out.
- An explanation for each UFO sighting was easily found.
- expense.