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 particularity, specificityRelated Words attentiveness, care, carefulness, conscientiousness, finicalness, finickiness, fussiness, meticulosity, meticulousness; alertness, cautiousness, circumspection, heedfulness, scrupulousness; discrimination, selectivity; accuracy, definitude, exactitude, exactness, fineness, preciseness, precisionNear Antonyms imprecision, inaccuracy, inexactness; indistinctness, vaguenessAntonyms 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, simplicity, lucidity, lucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousnessRelated Words incision, incisiveness; directness, forthrightness, openness, straightforwardness; readability, readableness; comprehensibility, intelligibility, legibilityNear 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, vaguenessAntonyms obscureness, obscurity, unclarity