Definition of Explanation
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
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
Will Rogers
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
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
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 some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Wallace Stevens
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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