Meanings
nounexplanification (countable and uncountable, plural explanifications)
plural explanifications
- countablenonstandarduncountableAn explanation.
Square, you be a Britisher, and it be no manner of calculation to make explanification wid you, but I guess, if Van Buren and Congress don't go to rail war for disputed territory, Maine will.
1844, Hugo Playfair, Brother Jonathan, page 124
Origin
From explain + -ify + -ation, modelled after clarification.
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explanification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/explanification
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“explanification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/explanification. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “explanification,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/explanification.
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