explaining

English

Verb

explaining

1. present participle and gerund of explain

Noun

explaining (countable and uncountable, plural explainings)

1. explanation

   You've got some explaining to do!

   • 1973, Abraham Kaplan, The conduct of inquiry, page 327:

     Among these various explainings there is one set which it is comparatively easy to distinguish. I call it semantic explanation: making clear a meaning.

Derived terms

• mansplaining
• straightsplaining
• unexplaining
• womansplaining