explicitize

To make explicit

Verb

  1. To make explicit
    • Very often it is completely unnecessary (and thus even disruptive) to explicitize exactly what one means. - 1984, Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, Speech Acts in Argumentative Discussions: A Theoretical Model for...
    • One of the ways we explicitize our view of happiness is to talk about our view of a “successful life”. - 2000, Robert J. Spitzer, Robin A. Bernhoft, Camille E. De Blasi, Healing the Culture, →ISBN, page 127:
    • It is not enough to merely explicitize tacit knowledge. Rather, tacit knowledge has to be put in some sort of system to be useful. - 2001, Linda Kyle Stromei, Creating Mentoring and Coaching Programs, page 24:

Origin

From explicit + -ize.

Forms

explicitizes explicitizing explicitized explicitise

Synonyms

clarify specify