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English
Etymology
From explicit + -ness.
Noun
explicitness (usually uncountable, plural explicitnesses)
- The state or characteristic of being explicit.
1973, Thomas Cable, “A Garland of Pomposities: Comment on Halle-Keyser Prosody”, in College English, volume 34, number 4, page 593:Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness.
1986, Ira B. Nadel, Biography: Fiction, Fact and Form, →ISBN, page 85:It furthermore confirms, as James A. Davies has shown, that when drawn to contemporaries, Forster did not preimpose ideas upon his material as he did with those of the past, but presented 'honest revelation' bordering on explicitness.
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