explicitness
/ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt.nəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness."
- "It furthermore confirms, as James A. Davies has shown, that when drawn to contemporaries, Forster did not preimpose ideas upon his material as he did with those of the past, but presented 'honest revelation' bordering on explicitness."
Etymology
Etymology tree English explicit Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English explicitness From explicit + -ness.