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Explicit Explicitly Intention Explicitness Adjective Expressed Shown Openly

word explicit
definition
adjective
Something that is explicit is expressed or shown clearly and openly, without any attempt to hide anything.
...sexually explicit scenes in films and books.
...explicit references to age in recruitment advertising.
The play was the first commercially successful work dealing explicitly with homosexuality.
Their intention is not to become involved in explicitly political activities.
When the book was published, the energy and explicitness caught the popular imagination.
If you are explicit about something, you speak about it very openly and clearly.
He was explicit about his intention to overhaul the party's internal voting system.
She's writing explicitly about old age.
inflections explicitlyexplicitnessexplicitly
cefr-level C1

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