explanation

== English == === Alternative forms === explaination (misspelling or obsolete spelling) === Etymology === From Latin explanatio (“an explanation, interpretation”), from explanare (“explain”); see explain. Morphologically explain +‎ -ation. Displaced native Old English racu. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/ Rhymes: -eɪʃən === Noun === explanation (countable and uncountable, plural explanations) The act or process of explaining. Something that explains or makes understandable. A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation. ==== Synonyms ==== (act or process of explaining): clarification; elucidation; elaboration; explaining; explication; femsplaining (pej., particularly by a feminist to a man); mansplaining, mansplanation (pej., particularly by a man to a woman) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== explain explanatory explicative explicator explicatory ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “explanation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “explanation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.