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explainability

explainability

4.8
How easy it is for people to understand how something works
  • noun
  • /ɪkˌspleɪnəˈbɪlɪti/
translation icon : explicabilidad
  • The explainability of the algorithm is crucial for users who need to trust its decisions.

Examples

  • Explainability of provided content is important for helping the user understand system behavior and control how the system uses her personal information.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Norbert Elias repeatedly noted that social developments are characterized by a combination of regularity and randomness, explainability and pure chance.

    Academic text (1997)
  • A value greater than 0.50 indicates the best explainability of the data and its appropriateness for factor analysis.

    Academic text (2005)
  • In scientific research, the explainability of results can help others replicate the study.

  • The teacher emphasized the explainability of complex concepts to help her students understand.

Synonyms

clarity
vsexplainability
152 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

emphasizes the potential to be made clear rather than current obviousness
transparency
vsexplainability
146 3.7

Being clear so people can see or understand how something works

is about being made clear to others rather than visible openness
intelligibility
vsexplainability
1 6.5

The ease with which people understand speech or writing

covers capacity to be made clear, not only immediate ease of understanding
comprehensibility
vsexplainability
1 4.2

How easy something is for people to understand

focuses on the potential to be made clear rather than current ease
interpretability
vsexplainability
  • Specialized
7.3

The quality of being easy to understand or explain

is the general capacity to be made clear outside technical contexts
definability
vsexplainability
  • Specialized
7.3

A quality that lets something be clearly described or explained

is about being made clear to people rather than formal definition
understandability
vsexplainability
3.4

How easy something is to follow and make sense of

highlights the ability to be made clear rather than present simplicity
decipherability
vsexplainability
7.6

The ease of reading and understanding writing or speech

is focused on being made clear to people, not only being decoded

Antonyms

5 7.4

Hard to understand or see, making people feel confused

A state where something is very hard to understand

How Explainable

obviousness
3 2.9
clarity
152 3.0
explainability
4.8
ambiguity
57 6.3
mystery
660 4.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

explainability = explainable (transparent) = explain + able + ity

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ity' to the transparent adjective 'explainable' (itself 'explain' + '-able').

Etymology

The word explainability comes from explain, which originally means 'make plain' and is like the simple English word plain meaning 'clear'. So explainability is the quality of being able to be made clear or 'understood' by other people.