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implicitness

implicitness

1 8.2
A quality of being suggested or understood without being said directly
  • noun
  • /ɪmˈplɪsɪtnəs/
: implicitud
  • But implicitness enhances the aesthetic effectiveness of texts and therefore is cultivated in literature.

So a spiritual being that is spiritual but has to have that implicitness drawn out of it that on Zikite we could say, or on Zik Zein, right?

Examples

  • In literature, implicitness allows readers to interpret meanings that are not explicitly stated.

  • Today we know that implicitness is a universal feature of texts.

    Academic text (1995)

  • But it's just good to keep in mind that this aspect explicit and implicitness of these structures.

  • 12 I will demonstrate its emergence on the case of the enthymeme, the oldest known device of implicitness. 13

    Academic text (1995)

  • Implicitness based on presupposition is a major source of fictional world construction and reconstruction.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Gaps and implicitness.

    Academic text (1995)

  • While implicitness is omnipresent in verbal communication, different text types tolerate it differently.

    Academic text (1995)

  • So a spiritual being that is spiritual but has to have that implicitness drawn out of it that on Zikite we could say, or on Zik Zein, right?

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • As the savoir-faire of workaday film practice was converted into the context-free propositional knowledge of production manuals and script handbooks, familiar methods of filmmaking were freed from their condition of implicitness.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The implicitness of social cues can greatly affect how we understand conversations.

Synonyms

indirectness
vsimplicitness
1 6.1

Not saying something clearly to avoid offending someone or to hide the real meaning

is about being implied and understood rather than lacking clear practical direction
obliqueness
vsimplicitness
1 8.9

Not saying things in a direct, clear way

is suggested or understood rather than deliberately avoiding direct expression
inexplicitness
vsimplicitness
9.8

A lack of clear meaning in words or instructions

is understood indirectly rather than being unclear or imprecise

Antonyms

explicitness
1 6.4

A clear and exact way of saying something so people cannot misunderstand

How Implicit

implicitness
1 8.2
explicitness
1 6.4

Surface Forms

implicitness singular
implicitnesses plural

Morphology

implicitness = implicit (transparent) = implicit + ness

Clear nominalization of the adjective 'implicit' with the productive suffix '-ness', yielding the expected meaning 'the quality of being implicit'.

Etymology

Implicitness comes from parts in- 'in' and plicare 'to fold', so a good image is a meaning that is 'folded inside' and not shown on the surface. Like the simpler word imply, implicitness means something is suggested or understood without being said directly.