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explanatoriness

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Etymology

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From explanatory +‎ -ness.

Noun

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explanatoriness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being explanatory.
    • 2008 May 30, Alan Baker, “Experimental Mathematics”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, →DOI:
      3 was that computer proofs may tend to be less explanatory than traditional proofs because they are more disjunctive, and disjunctiveness reduces explanatoriness.