Definitions for elaboration

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elaboration e·lab·o·ra·tion

Spelling: [ih-lab-uh-rey-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪˌlæb əˈreɪ ʃən/

Elaboration is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1079 anagrams from letters in elaboration (aabeilnoort).

Definitions for elaboration

noun

1. an act or instance of elaborating.
2. the state of being elaborated; elaborateness.
3. something that is elaborated.
4. 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.

Origin of elaboration

1570-80; Latin ēlabōrātiōn- (stem of ēlabōrātiō), equivalent to ēlabōrāt- (see elaborate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for elaboration

The craving for excitement and for elaboration has ruined that blessing.

A second version contains only an elaboration of this last motif.

It was an elaboration of the theories contained in his earlier book.

It is neither the time nor the place to ask for elaboration.

It is splendid in colouring and wonderful in the elaboration of detail.

Lack of elaboration is a virus that continually infects the book, sometimes having a sickening effect on the reader.

These theories merely an elaboration of one method of wage payment.

The system represents a series of compromises, not the elaboration of a theory.

A youth of this kind is raw material in its first stage of elaboration.

He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution.