A means of understanding something unknown, mysterious, or obscure; a solution or explanation.

Exposition; interpretation. Obsolete.

The action of expounding or explaining; interpretation, explanation. Also an instance or mode of this; an explanation, interpretation.

The action of making clear or clearing up (anything obscure or not understood); elucidation, explanation, interpretation. Obsolete.

The action of declare, v. in its various senses; declaration.

The action of clear, v., in various senses: brightening; clarifying; elucidation; exculpation, etc.

the action of expound, v.; concrete an exposition or interpretation.

The action or process of explaining something. Also: an instance of explaining.

The action of interpreting or explaining; explanation, exposition. †by interpretation, inferentially; = interpretatively, adv.

The action of explaining or interpreting. Cf. exploit, v. 1. Obsolete. rare.

The action of the verb, in various senses.

The action of explicate, v. (in various senses).

The action or process of removing difficulty or obscurity from, or making clear the meaning of a word, statement, symbol, action, etc. Also…

The action of clearing, or making clear; a freeing from obscurity, obstruction, encumbrance.

The action or process of elucidating, throwing light upon, making plain or intelligible.

The action or an instance of giving an explanation. Also: †an explanation (obsolete).

The action of making manifest; †exposition, explanation (obsolete); the fact of being manifested; the demonstration, revelation, or display of the…

The action or fact of making clear or evident to the mind; setting forth clearly or pictorially; elucidation; explanation; exemplification.

The action or result of taking out of twist; also plural, untwisted fibres or threads.

The action of eviscerate, v.; literal and figurative.

the action of loosing or unravelling.

A manifestation, revelation, uncovering; (also) a disclosure, publication. Cf. open, v. 6. Obsolete.

The action of making lucid or clear; a clearing up; explanation, elucidation.

The act of showing or setting forth; exposition, explanation, manifestation, declaring.

The action of enucleating, or getting out the ‘kernel’ of a matter; unfolding, explanation.

Elucidation. Obsolete. rare.

The action of clarify, v.; clarification.

The action of unravel, v.; an instance of this. Also: something unravelled (from a woven fabric, a web, etc.).

The fact of disentangling, or state of being disentangled.

Explanation or interpretation of a text, esp. of scripture or a scriptural passage; spec. this as an academic discipline (cf. exegetics, n.). Also…

The removal of ambiguity (esp. in language); clarification; differentiation. Also: the result of this; the action or fact of telling things apart…

figurative (cf. eviscerate, v. 2.) The extracting or eliciting of the inner meaning (of anything).

A word or idea that serves as a solution or explanation for something; a word, expression, or concept of particular importance or significance.

Of ideas, thought, opinion.

The function of an exponent of something.

The action of the verb, in various senses. Also with out.

the action of demystifying.