单词 | elaboration |
释义 | elaboration /i lab'euh ray"sheuhn/, n. 1. an act or instance of elaborating. 2. the state of being elaborated; elaborateness. 3. something that is elaborated. 4. Psychiatry. an unconscious process of expanding and embellishing a detail, esp. while recalling and describing a representation in a dream so that latent content of the dream is brought into a logical and comprehensible order. [1570-80; < L elaboration- (s. of elaboratio), equiv. to elaborat- (see ELABORATE) + -ion- -ION] |
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