explicitness

explicitness

noun

Definition 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

Near Antonyms imprecision, inaccuracy, inexactness; indistinctness, vagueness

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>

Synonyms clarity, explicitness, lucidity, lucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness

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

Antonyms obscureness, obscurity, unclarity