explicitness

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Recent Examples of explicitness However, Swift's explicitness pales in comparison to the amount of profanity across the music industry, research shows. Melina Khan, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025 Evans’ gritty drama will undoubtedly turn off sensitive viewers given its explicitness. Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for explicitness
Noun
  • As Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak reminds us, any meaningful engagement must contend with internal difference, historical specificity, and political complexity.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, while many people in both Mexico and Chile speak Spanish, the specificities of the dialogue in both places differs.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Legal analysts suggest that the case may be difficult to prove, and the defense has signaled plans to challenge the clarity and validity of the indictment.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Secret Agent opens in stark simplicity.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • As for the overall style, Thevenot gravitates toward simplicity, suggesting something in the center of the updo-to-hair-down spectrum.
    Anneke Knot, Allure, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Explicitness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explicitness. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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