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explicitness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of explicitness

particularity, specificity
Words Related to explicitness

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 of explicitness

imprecision, inaccuracy, inexactness

indistinctness, vagueness
Antonyms of explicitness

generality

2 clearness of expression

  • the userʼs manual is written with such rare explicitness that the average consumer actually has a chance of understanding it
Synonyms of explicitness

clarity, lucidity, lucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness, simplicity
Words Related to explicitness

incision, incisiveness

directness, forthrightness, openness, straightforwardness

readability, readableness

comprehensibility, intelligibility, legibility
Near Antonyms of explicitness

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 of explicitness

obscureness, obscurity, unclarity

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