explicitness
explicitness
nounDefinition of EXPLICITNESS
1
careful thoroughness of detail <the explicitness of the instruction about human reproduction should be appropriate for the age of the students receiving it>
Synonyms explicitness, specificity
Related Words attentiveness, care, carefulness, conscientiousness, finicalness, finickiness, fussiness, meticulosity, meticulousness; alertness, cautiousness, circumspection, heedfulness, scrupulousness; discrimination, selectivity; accuracy, definitude, exactitude, exactness, fineness, preciseness, precision
Antonyms generality
2
clearness of expression <the user's manual is written with such rare explicitness that the average consumer actually has a chance of understanding it>
Related Words incision, incisiveness; directness, forthrightness, openness, straightforwardness; readability, readableness; comprehensibility, intelligibility, legibility
Near Antonyms ambiguity, ambiguousness, equivocalness, equivocation, inscrutability, inscrutableness, obliqueness, obliquity, opacity, opaqueness; impenetrability, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness, unintelligibility, unintelligibleness; circuitousness, deviousness, indirectness, indistinctness; dimness, disjointedness, incoherence; faintness, fuzziness, muddiness, nebulousness, vagueness
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