expounding
Setting forth ideas
Expounding is explaining something in detail, typically by elaborating on a text, doctrine, or idea.
The word suggests thorough, often authoritative interpretation: The professor spent the hour expounding on constitutional law.
Someone who expounds doesn't just summarize—they develop and clarify, often at length.
Analyzing to clarify meaning
- elaboratingDeveloping in greater detail
- elucidatingMaking something easier understood
- illustratingDrawing to explain
- clarifyingMaking something understandable
articulating · detailing · describing · interpreting · conveying · presenting · unfolding · developing
Giving an instructive talk
- instructingConveying how to proceed
- tutoringIndividual academic guidance
- educatingTeaching or training someone
- coachingGuiding others to improve
guiding · mentoring · schooling · briefing · training · enlightening · informing · imparting
Provision of light
- elucidationAct of explaining clearly
- demystificationExplaining the obscure
- simplificationMaking something less complex
- disambiguationRemoving uncertainty about meaning
decoding · unraveling · specification · explication · definition · transparency · illustration · clearing up
Critical textual interpretation
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- analysisMethodical study of parts
- annotationAdded explanatory comment
critique · gloss · deconstruction · reading · construing · parsing · deciphering · unpacking
explicating
Analyzing to clarify meaning
- elaboratingDeveloping in greater detail
- elucidatingMaking something easier understood
- illustratingDrawing to explain
clarifying · articulating · detailing · describing · interpreting · conveying · presenting · unfolding · developing · amplifying
lecturing
Giving an instructive talk
- instructingConveying how to proceed
- tutoringIndividual academic guidance
- educatingTeaching or training someone
coaching · guiding · mentoring · schooling · briefing · training · enlightening · informing · imparting · disseminating
illumination
Provision of light
- elucidationAct of explaining clearly
- demystificationExplaining the obscure
- simplificationMaking something less complex
disambiguation · decoding · unraveling · specification · explication · definition · transparency · illustration · clearing up
exegesis
Critical textual interpretation
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- analysisMethodical study of parts
annotation · critique · gloss · deconstruction · reading · construing · parsing · deciphering · unpacking · contextualizing
- explainingexplaining, clarifying, elaborating, elucidating, interpreting
- speechmakingorating, declaiming, speechifying, sermonizing, preaching
- lectureslecture hall, lecturer, TED Talks, lectern, podium
expoundingsummarizing
Condensing to main points
condensing · abbreviating · compressing · abridging · truncating
expoundingobscuring
Making less visible
confusing · obfuscating · muddling · mystifying · clouding
expoundingwithholding
Keeping from another
suppressing · holding back · concealing · keeping mum · saying nothing
position, expose, opponent, deposit, component, proponent, exposition, expound, exponent