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• other relevant words (adjective)
• account (noun)
• alibi (noun)
• answer (noun)
• apologia (noun)
• apology (noun)
• basis (noun)
• caption (noun)
• cause (noun)
• clarification; reason (noun)
• cognition (noun)
• commentary (noun)
• conception (noun)
• contention (noun)
• declaration (noun)
• definition (noun)
• demonstration (noun)
• description (noun)
• expose (noun)
• exposition (noun)
• expression (noun)
• footnote (noun)
• hypothesis (noun)
• illustration (noun)
• indication (noun)
• interpretation (noun)
• introduction (noun)
• justification (noun)
• light (noun)
• meaning (noun)
• narration (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• paraphrase (noun)
• plea (noun)
• preface (noun)
• rationale (noun)
• reason (noun)
• remark (noun)
• response (noun)
• restatement (noun)
• semantics (noun)
• significancy (noun)
• solution (noun)
• statement (noun)
• translation (noun)
• verbalization (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• solution
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "explanation" in context?

Paraphrases for explanation

Homophones for explanation

Hypernyms for explanation

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Meronyms for explanation

Synonyms for Explanation:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • means.

• n.

  •
  • display,
  • principle,
  • explication,
  • talking,
  • showing,
  • clarification,
  • confession,
  • recital,
  • writing,
  • specification,
  • outline,
  • theory,
  • telling.
  •
  • criticism,
  • example,
  • note,
  • tale,
  • reason,
  • glossary,
  • summary,
  • exegesis,
  • anecdote,
  • breakdown,
  • information,
  • proof,
  • narrative,
  • brief.
  •
  • explain.
  • account (noun)
  • lowdown,
  • play by play,
  • the whole picture,
  • blow by blow,
  • the picture,
  • whole picture,
  • history.
  • alibi (noun)
  • co-pout,
  • airtight cases,
  • cop outs,
  • co pout,
  • co-pouts,
  • pre-texts,
  • pre text,
  • pre texts,
  • re tort,
  • re-torts,
  • pre-text,
  • re torts,
  • re-tort,
  • co pouts,
  • song dance,
  • copouts.
  • answer (noun)
  • counterclaim,
  • riposte,
  • response,
  • echo,
  • countercharge,
  • excuse,
  • surrebuttal,
  • return,
  • acknowledgment,
  • rebuttal,
  • counter-statement,
  • rejoinder,
  • replication,
  • reply,
  • counter-accusation,
  • comeback,
  • retort,
  • counter-reply.
  • apologia (noun)
  • apologetics.
  • apology (noun)
  • re dresses,
  • re dress,
  • re-dress,
  • re-dresses.
  • basis (noun)
  • infra-structures,
  • infra structure,
  • sub-strata,
  • sub-stratum,
  • pre-mise,
  • pre mises,
  • infra structures,
  • pre-suppositions,
  • pre mise,
  • pre supposition,
  • pre-supposition,
  • under pinning,
  • sub stratums,
  • pre-mises,
  • sub stratum,
  • sub-stratums,
  • principal elements,
  • chief ingredients,
  • pre suppositions,
  • sub strata,
  • under-pinning.
  • caption (noun)
  • subtitles,
  • subtitle,
  • sub-title,
  • sub-titles.
  • cause (noun)
  • mainspring,
  • maker,
  • mainsprings,
  • origins,
  • determinants,
  • prime mover,
  • Causations,
  • determinant,
  • causation,
  • motivations.
  • clarification; reason (noun)
  • motive,
  • rendition,
  • sense,
  • story,
  • vindication,
  • report,
  • resolution,
  • mitigation,
  • details,
  • significance.
  • cognition (noun)
  • explanation.
  • commentary (noun)
  • dis-courses,
  • re-views,
  • dis-course,
  • voice overs,
  • dis courses,
  • re-view,
  • re views,
  • voice-overs,
  • voiceovers,
  • re view,
  • dis course,
  • voice over.
  • conception (noun)
  • considerings,
  • envisagings,
  • philosophizings,
  • concentratings,
  • re presentation,
  • de-signs,
  • communings,
  • re presentations,
  • deliberatings,
  • de sign,
  • de-sign,
  • fancyings,
  • meditatings,
  • de signs,
  • re-presentations,
  • cogitatings,
  • de liberating,
  • mental grasps,
  • speculatings,
  • de-liberating.
  • contention (noun)
  • predication,
  • demurrer,
  • demurrers,
  • predications.
  • declaration (noun)
  • in-formation,
  • re velations,
  • re velation,
  • two cents' worths,
  • re-velation,
  • in-formations,
  • re-velations,
  • in formations.
  • definition (noun)
  • de notation,
  • de limitations,
  • out linings,
  • statement meaning,
  • de-limitation,
  • de-notations,
  • expoundings,
  • de-limitations,
  • de lineation,
  • ex-pounding,
  • de-notation,
  • de-terminations,
  • de termination,
  • out-lining,
  • ex pounding,
  • de-lineations,
  • de notations,
  • de-lineation,
  • de-termination,
  • out-linings,
  • de lineations,
  • out lining,
  • de terminations,
  • de limitation.
  • demonstration (noun)
  • substantiation,
  • exhibition.
  • description (noun)
  • re cord,
  • re cords,
  • re-cord,
  • recountals,
  • summarizations,
  • re-citation,
  • re-citations,
  • re citations,
  • re citation,
  • re-cords.
  • expose (noun)
  • ex pose,
  • un covering,
  • exposals,
  • un coverings,
  • uncoverings,
  • un-covering,
  • divulgences,
  • un-coverings,
  • ex-pose.
  • exposition (noun)
  • de tails,
  • ex-position,
  • enucleations,
  • ex-positions,
  • ex positions,
  • tractates,
  • construals,
  • ex position,
  • de-tails.
  • expression (noun)
  • choice words,
  • de-liveries,
  • de livery,
  • turn phrase,
  • de-livery,
  • de liveries,
  • set phrases,
  • choice of word.
  • footnote (noun)
  • after thought.
  • hypothesis (noun)
  • hypo-thesis,
  • Lemmata,
  • pro positions,
  • apriorities,
  • pro position,
  • sur mises,
  • shot the dark,
  • starting points,
  • sur-mise,
  • shot dark,
  • sur mise,
  • sur-mises,
  • tentative laws,
  • hypo thesis,
  • shot in dark,
  • pro-positions.
  • illustration (noun)
  • ex-ample,
  • in-stances,
  • in-stance,
  • re presentative,
  • in stance,
  • re-presentative,
  • ex ample,
  • case point,
  • in stances.
  • indication (noun)
  • prefiguration,
  • signifier,
  • signifiers,
  • prefigurations,
  • telltales,
  • Indicia,
  • earnests,
  • portent,
  • adumbration,
  • significants.
  • interpretation (noun)
  • condensation,
  • facsimile,
  • decoding,
  • Paraphrasing,
  • rephrasing,
  • decipherment,
  • version,
  • analysis.
  • introduction (noun)
  • preface.
  • justification (noun)
  • whatfors,
  • why and wherefores,
  • whole ideas,
  • raison detre,
  • why wherefore,
  • whitewashings,
  • why wherefores,
  • sanctifications.
  • light (noun)
  • Lights.
  • meaning (noun)
  • denotation,
  • semantics,
  • point,
  • drift,
  • tenor,
  • gist,
  • subject,
  • relevance,
  • connotation,
  • implication,
  • upshot,
  • intent,
  • message,
  • pith,
  • topic,
  • crux,
  • purpose,
  • thrust.
  • narration (noun)
  • tellings,
  • storytelling.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • evidence,
  • Semiology,
  • apology,
  • light,
  • exemplification,
  • samplings,
  • contention,
  • whole idea,
  • portraiture,
  • enucleation,
  • delimitation,
  • chief ingredient,
  • Exposal,
  • Re-presentation,
  • statement of meaning,
  • Unravelment,
  • wherefores,
  • footnote,
  • rudiment,
  • uncovering,
  • elucidation,
  • intellection,
  • remark,
  • portraitures,
  • account,
  • vocalization,
  • gloss,
  • communiques,
  • manifesto,
  • simplifications,
  • exposure,
  • solution,
  • transliteration,
  • infra-structure,
  • fulcrum,
  • notion,
  • set phrase,
  • delimitations,
  • transcription,
  • prelusion,
  • the big idea,
  • tentative law,
  • promulgation,
  • preliminary,
  • illustration,
  • Testimonies,
  • Fulcrums,
  • formulations,
  • Individuations,
  • vignette,
  • mental grasp,
  • answer,
  • voiceover,
  • airtight case,
  • translation,
  • rationale,
  • Exordia,
  • dreamings,
  • Glossology,
  • description,
  • stall,
  • presentment,
  • statement,
  • symbolism,
  • commentary,
  • imaginings,
  • principal element,
  • key,
  • lemma,
  • saying,
  • exemplifications,
  • conception,
  • indication,
  • keystones,
  • Fulcra,
  • premise,
  • sanctification,
  • individuation,
  • copout,
  • voice-over,
  • justification,
  • fundamental,
  • manifestation,
  • speakings,
  • elaboration,
  • characterizations,
  • exordium,
  • Metaphrase,
  • communique,
  • formalizations,
  • two cents' worth,
  • intellections,
  • why and wherefore,
  • presentments,
  • hypothesis,
  • plea,
  • simplification,
  • construal,
  • big idea,
  • interpretation,
  • for instance,
  • in formation,
  • meaning,
  • Tractate,
  • phrasing,
  • Proem,
  • whyfor,
  • extenuation,
  • significs,
  • alibi,
  • restatement,
  • Lemmas,
  • say so,
  • recountal,
  • exposition,
  • cop-outs,
  • roots,
  • Philosophies,
  • caption,
  • palliative,
  • sayings,
  • transliterations,
  • ejaculation,
  • palliatives,
  • prologue,
  • paraphrase,
  • hard facts,
  • keynotes,
  • choice word,
  • divulgence,
  • settlings,
  • starting point,
  • symbiology,
  • narration,
  • cause,
  • whatfor,
  • the whole idea,
  • summarization,
  • infrastructure,
  • rewordings,
  • demonstration,
  • characterization,
  • lever,
  • writeup,
  • cop-out,
  • Re-mark,
  • Exordiums,
  • Exegetics,
  • bon mot,
  • declaration,
  • transcriptions,
  • idioms,
  • formulation,
  • definition,
  • formalization,
  • apologia,
  • Apriority,
  • hard fact,
  • decodings,
  • basis,
  • turn of phrase,
  • choice of words.
  • paraphrase (noun)
  • para-phrases,
  • re-wordings,
  • re-wording,
  • re-phrasings,
  • re-hash,
  • re hashes,
  • rephrasings,
  • re wording,
  • re-hashes,
  • re-phrasing,
  • para-phrase,
  • re phrasing,
  • re phrasings,
  • para phrases,
  • re hash,
  • re wordings,
  • para phrase.
  • plea (noun)
  • entreaty,
  • appeal,
  • petition,
  • suit.
  • preface (noun)
  • fore-word,
  • pre faces,
  • fore-words,
  • pre-faces,
  • pre ludes,
  • fore word,
  • fore words,
  • pre lude,
  • prelusions,
  • pre-face,
  • pre face,
  • pre-ludes,
  • pre-lude.
  • rationale (noun)
  • the big ideas,
  • big ideas,
  • the whole ideas,
  • whyfors.
  • reason (noun)
  • whys and wherefores.
  • remark (noun)
  • re cognitions,
  • re gards,
  • re flection,
  • re-flection,
  • re marks,
  • bons mots,
  • re cognition,
  • re mark,
  • re-marks,
  • re-cognition,
  • re flections,
  • re-gard,
  • re-flections.
  • response (noun)
  • denial,
  • reaction,
  • refutation,
  • objection,
  • defense.
  • restatement (noun)
  • re statements,
  • re statement,
  • re-statements,
  • re-statement.
  • semantics (noun)
  • glossologies,
  • semi-ologies,
  • semi ology,
  • semi-ology,
  • symbiologies,
  • semiologies,
  • exegeticses,
  • significses,
  • semi ologies.
  • significancy (noun)
  • in tents,
  • in tent.
  • solution (noun)
  • un raveling,
  • un ravelments,
  • un ravelings,
  • un-ravelment,
  • un-raveling,
  • solvings,
  • un folding,
  • un-folding,
  • unravelments,
  • un-ravelings,
  • un ravelment,
  • unravelings,
  • un-ravelments.
  • statement (noun)
  • blow-by-blows.
  • translation (noun)
  • de codings,
  • meta phrase,
  • de-codings,
  • meta phrases,
  • metaphrases,
  • meta-phrase,
  • de coding,
  • meta-phrases,
  • de-coding.
  • verbalization (noun)
  • verbalization.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • education,
  • comment,
  • opinion,
  • speech,
  • study,
  • language.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • enlightenment,
  • interpretative,
  • instruction,
  • interpretive,
  • notes,
  • rationalization,
  • annotation,
  • thesis,
  • explanatory.
  •
  • preamble,
  • expression.
  •
  • construction,
  • law,
  • illumination.
  • solution
  • solvent.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • delineation,
  • presentation,
  • discovery,
  • namely,
  • wherefore,
  • bill,
  • learn,
  • rehabilitation,
  • finding out,
  • ruse,
  • exponent,
  • consideration,
  • speculation,
  • memoir,
  • reasons,
  • clearing,
  • disseminate,
  • in other words,
  • pretext,
  • see,
  • prototype,
  • lesson,
  • rationalisation,
  • issue,
  • pretence,
  • hear,
  • instance,
  • grounds,
  • palliation,
  • dispel,
  • account statement,
  • relevant instance,
  • loosen,
  • expounding,
  • prevarication,
  • editing,
  • score,
  • preachment,
  • postulate,
  • apologue,
  • extinct,
  • typical example,
  • defence,
  • rewriting,
  • result,
  • distribute,
  • unlocking,
  • eisegesis,
  • comprehension,
  • Theoric,
  • comprehend,
  • unfold,
  • ground,
  • insight,
  • premises,
  • denouement,
  • logic,
  • restoration,
  • legend,
  • pretense,
  • understanding,
  • disclosure,
  • cover,
  • figuring out,
  • disentanglement,
  • critique,
  • parable,
  • expose,
  • outcome,
  • Marginalia,
  • separate,
  • Significancy,
  • advocacy,
  • revelation,
  • Scholium,
  • solve,
  • rebutter,
  • sermon,
  • discourse,
  • evasion,
  • end result,
  • accomplishment,
  • working,
  • record,
  • untangling,
  • business relationship,
  • why,
  • videlicet,
  • reinstatement,
  • chronicle,
  • construe,
  • realize,
  • case,
  • exculpation,
  • Euhemerism,
  • catch,
  • undo,
  • purgation,
  • theorization,
  • indicator,
  • emendation,
  • disperse,
  • working out,
  • chalk talk,
  • investigation,
  • cue,
  • slaked,
  • sorting out,
  • animadversion,
  • demythologization,
  • reason why,
  • theoria,
  • inquiry,
  • demo,
  • unweaving,
  • song,
  • illustrate,
  • surrebutter,
  • end,
  • unravelling,
  • signification,
  • reveal,
  • clearing up,
  • guide,
  • clear,
  • Deciphering,
  • write up,
  • decipher,
  • representation,
  • accounting,
  • pattern,
  • clue,
  • observation,
  • condonation,
  • red herring,
  • surrejoinder,
  • untie,
  • exemplar,
  • witness to,
  • clarify,
  • Riddling,
  • symbol,
  • argument,
  • type,
  • divide,
  • unfasten,
  • Theoretics,
  • emancipate,
  • spread,
  • representative,
  • solving,
  • wit,
  • Allegorization,
  • object lesson,
  • expository,
  • resolve,
  • arguments,
  • unscrambling,
  • cracking,
  • unravel,
  • abstraction,
  • philosophy,
  • break down,
  • rational ground,
  • clearance,
  • interpret,
  • finding,
  • news report,
  • purging,
  • unriddling,
  • invoice,
  • unraveling,
  • rewrite,
  • resolving,
  • determination,
  • rational,
  • Id Est,
  • understand,
  • idea,
  • emblem,
  • foundation,
  • discussion,
  • Ascertainment,
  • mark,
  • side-note,
  • reference,
  • rewording,
  • untwisting,
  • case in point,
  • lecture,
  • reasoning,
  • expansion,
  • show,
  • theoretic,
  • support.

How to use "Explanation" in context?

Paraphrases for Explanation:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    explication.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    clarification, interpretation, justification, justifications, interpretations.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    clarification, definition, exposition, interpretation, justification, misinterpretation.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    description, explanatory, reason, statement, Economies, Explained, Explaining, explains, descriptions, statements, reasons, observations, particulars, annotations, specifics, centres.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    affirmation, annotation, argument, assertion, briefing, clarity, debriefing, description, enlightenment, exhibition, explanatory, illustration, information, motivation, outline, precision, proclamation, pronouncement, reason, specification, statement, suggestion, DASS.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    declaration, explain, rationale, declarations.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    announcement, answer, declaration, elaboration, elucidation, excuse, explain, motive, narrative, presentation, rationale, reasoning, reply.
  • Verb, base form
    explain.

Homophones for Explanation:

• explanandum.

Hypernym for Explanation:

• n.

  • cognition
    key, principle, rationalization, rendition, theory, rationale, rationalisation, interpreting, interpretation, rendering.
  • communication
    derivation, etymologizing, elucidation, justification, deriving, simplification, exposition, accounting, definition, explication, gloss, rubric, walk-through, interpretation, reason.

Hyponym for Explanation:

• n.

  • cognition
    intellection, cerebration, thinking, thought, thought process, mentation.
  • communication
    statement, speech act.

Meronym for Explanation:

• n.

  • cognition
    basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone.
  • communication
    explicandum, explanans, explanandum.