Home › Words › E › explanatorinessexplanatorinessexplanatoriness · noun — the quality of being explanatory.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom explanatory + -ness.nounThe quality of being explanatory.e.g.“3 was that computer proofs may tend to be less explanatory than traditional proofs because they are more disjunctive, and disjunctiveness reduces explanatoriness.” — 2008 May 30, Alan Baker, “Experimental Mathematics”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, →DOI:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).