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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 Word Forms
- self-elaboration noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of elaboration1
Example Sentences
Here repeated rhythms are overlayed by a large ensemble featuring all the festival performers in ecstatic elaborations.
Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot.
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.
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