explainability
- noun
- /ɪkˌspleɪnəˈbɪlɪti/
- The explainability of the algorithm is crucial for users who need to trust its decisions.
Examples
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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.
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The teacher emphasized the explainability of complex concepts to help her students understand.
Synonyms
How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes
Being clear so people can see or understand how something works
The ease with which people understand speech or writing
How easy something is for people to understand
The quality of being easy to understand or explain
A quality that lets something be clearly described or explained
How easy something is to follow and make sense of
The ease of reading and understanding writing or speech
Antonyms
How Explainable
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.