Advertisement
Advertisement
elaboration
[ ih-lab-uh-rey-shuhn ]
noun
- an act or instance of elaborating.
- the state of being elaborated; elaborateness.
- something that is elaborated.
- Psychiatry. an unconscious process of expanding and embellishing a detail, especially while recalling and describing a representation in a dream so that latent content of the dream is brought into a logical and comprehensible order.
Other Words From
- self-e·labo·ration noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of elaboration1
Example Sentences
He acknowledged that speculation about a lab leak is not in itself a conspiracy theory, but that doesn’t go for the elaborations that many of its adherents have made of it.
"These results help us understand the evolutionary history of horns and antlers and could suggest that differences in other ruminant cranial appendages, like ossicones and pronghorns, are also elaborations on a shared ancestral cranial appendage."
The fourth church, New Hope Baptist of Gastonia, N.C., had failed to participate financially in the convention and showed no intent “to resolve a question of faith and practice,” the committee said without elaboration.
Neither office responded to a Times request for elaboration on what was found and where.
Slow tempo melodic elaborations that had a strong emotive emphasis became the insignia of his performances.
Advertisement
Related Words
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse