elucidating

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Definition of elucidating

2 senses · 2 parts of speech

adj

  1. Serving to make something comprehensible or well understood; enlightening.
    “He wrote in a letter to his morther and sister that it is "very elucidating” for “an anonymous company commander to travel abroad in the higher brackets and observe the machinations which shape his destiny.””
    “Recent social science research would suggest that a complex equation is more elucidating when attempting to analyse the impact of the introduction of religious messaging in prisons.”
    “An earlier example in her research gives an even more elucidating notion of how affects and objects might have similar ontologies: "experiencing an emotion is less like seeing an object such as a chair and more like experiencing color" (" Solving" 29 ).”
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adj

  1. Serving to make something comprehensible or well understood; enlightening.
    “He wrote in a letter to his morther and sister that it is "very elucidating” for “an anonymous company commander to travel abroad in the higher brackets and observe the machinations which shape his destiny.””
    “Recent social science research would suggest that a complex equation is more elucidating when attempting to analyse the impact of the introduction of religious messaging in prisons.”
    “An earlier example in her research gives an even more elucidating notion of how affects and objects might have similar ontologies: "experiencing an emotion is less like seeing an object such as a chair and more like experiencing color" (" Solving" 29 ).”

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of elucidate

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