n]
| 1. | an act or instance of elaborating. |
| 2. | the state of being elaborated; elaborateness. |
| 3. | something that is elaborated. |
| 4. | Psychiatry. an unconscious process of expanding and embellishing a detail, esp. while recalling and describing a representation in a dream so that latent content of the dream is brought into a logical and comprehensible order. |
e·lab·o·rate (ĭ-lāb'ər-ĭt) adj.
v. tr.
[Latin ēlabōrātus, past participle of ēlabōrāre, to work out : ē-, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + labōrāre, to work (from labor, work).] e·lab'o·rate·ly adv., e·lab'o·rate·ness n., e·lab'o·ra'tion n., e·lab'o·ra'tor n. Synonyms: These adjectives mean marked by complexity of detail: an elaborate lace pattern; the eye, a complicated organ; an intricate problem. |
elaboration e·lab·o·ra·tion (ĭ-lāb'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.