explaining

explanation

Noun

  1. explanation
    • You've got some explaining to do!
    • Among these various explainings there is one set which it is comparatively easy to distinguish. I call it semantic explanation: making clear a meaning. - 1973, Abraham Kaplan, The conduct of inquiry, page 327:

Forms

explainings

Derived

mansplaining straightsplaining unexplaining womansplaining

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of explain
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