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elaboration

[ ih-lab-uh-rey-shuh n ]
/ ɪˌlæb əˈreɪ ʃən /
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noun

an act or instance of elaborating.
the state of being elaborated; elaborateness.
something that is elaborated.
Psychiatry. an unconscious process of expanding and embellishing a detail, especially while recalling and describing a representation in a dream so that latent content of the dream is brought into a logical and comprehensible order.

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RELATED WORDS

amplification, comment, discussion, explanation

Nearby words

  1. el toro,
  2. el.,
  3. elaborate,
  4. elaborated code,
  5. elaborately,
  6. elaenia,
  7. elaeoptene,
  8. elaeothesium,
  9. elagabalus,
  10. elaine

Origin of elaboration

1570–80; < Latin ēlabōrātiōn- (stem of ēlabōrātiō), equivalent to ēlabōrāt- (see elaborate) + -iōn- -ion
Related formsself-e·lab·o·ra·tion, noun
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Medicine definitions for elaboration

elaboration

[ ĭ-lăb′ə-rā′shən ]

n.

The process of working out in detail by labor and study.
The mental process occurring partly during dreaming and partly during the recalling or telling of a dream, by means of which the latent content of the dream is brought into increasingly more coherent and logical order, resulting in the manifest content of the dream.
Related formse•lab′o•rate′ v.
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