Definition of Explanation

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Explanation

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.

The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense.

A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.

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Explanation Quotations

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. Lewis

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
Will Rogers

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
Dave Barry

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
Anaxagoras

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de Beauvoir

Explanation Translations

explanation in Afrikaans is verduideliking
explanation in Danish is forklaring
explanation in Dutch is toelichting, explicatie
explanation in Italian is definizione, interpretazione, spiegazione
explanation in Latin is explicatus
explanation in Norwegian is forklaring

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