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