单词 | explanatoriness |
释义 | > as lemmasexˈplanatoriness exˈplanatoriness n. the quality of being explanatory. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Explanatoriness, explicative Quality. 1849 A. M. Bell New Elucidation Princ. Speech & Elocution iv. 242 There is a Vocal Logic; a Rhetoric of Inflexion; a Poetry of Modulation; a Commentator's explanatoriness of Tone, and these are combined, in effective reading. 1976 L. Wright Teleological Explanations ii. 61 There is a very close relationship between cause and explanatoriness: to give a cause is to give an explanation. 2006 Linguistics & Philos. 29 335 We think the elegance and explanatoriness of Kehler's theory would be severely restricted by making such assumptions. < as lemmas |
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