elucidations
Making things clearer
Elucidations are explanations that make something clearer or easier to understand.
The word implies that what's being explained was previously obscure or confusing: Her elucidations of the contract terms helped us understand what we were signing.
The singular elucidation refers to a single act of clarifying.
Statements removing ambiguity
- expositionsLarge public exhibitions
- explicationsThorough interpretive clarifications
- interpretationsExplanations of meaning
- commentariesExplanatory notes on texts
annotations · definitions · glosses · illustrations · descriptions · accounts · exegeses · paraphrases
Explanatory additions to documents
- footnotesMarginal citations below text
- marginaliaNotes in page edges
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
Surprising facts made known
- realizationsMoments of sudden understanding
- epiphaniesSudden moments of insight
- discoveriesNewly revealed facts
- understandingsShared knowledge or agreements
comprehensions · discernments · perceptions · illuminations · recognitions · awarenesses · apprehensions · cognitions
clarifications
Statements removing ambiguity
- expositionsLarge public exhibitions
- explicationsThorough interpretive clarifications
- interpretationsExplanations of meaning
commentaries · annotations · definitions · glosses · illustrations · descriptions · accounts · exegeses · paraphrases · translations
annotations
Explanatory additions to documents
- footnotesMarginal citations below text
- marginaliaNotes in page edges
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
revelations
Surprising facts made known
- realizationsMoments of sudden understanding
- epiphaniesSudden moments of insight
- discoveriesNewly revealed facts
understandings · comprehensions · discernments · perceptions · illuminations · recognitions · awarenesses · apprehensions · cognitions · breakthroughs
elucidationsobfuscations
Deliberate acts of confusion
obscurations · confusions · mystifications · muddlings · befuddlements
elucidationsconcealments
Acts of hiding something
cover-ups · suppressions · hidings · veiling · smokescreens