elucidation

1. 1.

   an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on

   Broaderexplanation
2. 2.

   an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding

   “the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook”

   Synonymsclarificationillumination

   Broaderinterpretation

   Narrowerdisambiguation

Other forms of elucidation

plural

elucidations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about elucidation

What does elucidation mean?

elucidation means "an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in elucidation?

elucidation has 6 syllables: e-lu-ci-da-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for elucidation?

Close synonyms include clarification, illumination. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elucidation a common word?

elucidation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.