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Meaning of Explicitness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The state or characteristic of being explicit.

uncountable, usually

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Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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