explicitness
noun/ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt.nəs/
Etymology From explicit + -ness.
1
Usually The state or characteristic of being explicit.
- Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness.1973, Thomas Cable, “A Garland of Pomposities: Comment on Halle-Keyser Prosody”, in College English, volume 34, number 4, page 593:
- It furthermore confirms, as James A. Davies has shown, that when drawn to contemporaries, Forster did not preimpose ideas upon his material as he did with those of the past, but presented 'honest revelation' bordering on explicitness.1986, Ira B. Nadel, Biography: Fiction, Fact and Form, →ISBN, page 85:
- Antonyms
- implicitness
- Related terms
- explicitation