elaboration
noun[CorU]
uk/iˌlæb.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us/iˌlæb.əˈreɪ.ʃən/theadditionof moreinformationto or anexplanationof something that you have said:
Thispointneedsgreaterelaboration.
Hisphotographsrequireno written elaboration - everything is in theimagesthemselves.
See
elaborate
- Courtrulingshave beencentralto the elaboration ofconstitutionalrights.
- It wasannoyingto have tokeepturningto the back of thebookforclarificationand elaboration ofpointsin thetext.
- Thejudgegave thesentenceandleftthecourtroomwithout elaboration.
Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
- abstract
- anti-reductionism
- anti-reductionist
- broad brush
- broaden
- enlarge on/uponsomething
- expand
- expand onsomething
- expansively
- expansiveness
- overgeneralization
- overgeneralize
- oversimplification
- oversimplify
- predigested
- specificity
- specify
- split hairsidiom
- standardization
- standardize