0 the act of explaining something in detail, especially a piece of writing or an idea:
There's too much explication in the play and not enough action.
His explication of each side's strategies and tactics is gripping.
We heard clear explication of the competing scientific theories.
The children of the poor stay poor, to an extent far beyond any explication.
She provided a helpful explication of current positions in the disciplines of linguistics and literary analysis.
He seems to require endless, occasionally tiresome explication to convey his ideas.