explainability

noun

explainability

noun

Etymology From explain + -ability.

1

Usually The state of being explainable.

  • “There’s this whole area of explainability, interpretability, where people want to understand how stuff works,” said Church. “With the older methods, you can actually get an answer to what’s going on. The latest, greatest stuff is kind of like magic. It works a lot better than the older stuff. But when it goes, it’s really bad.”2025 November 1, Aisha Down, quoting Kenneth Church, “Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Synonyms
explicability

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