elaboration

[ ih-lab-uh-rey-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. an act or instance of elaborating.

  2. the state of being elaborated; elaborateness.

  1. something that is elaborated.

  2. 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.

Origin of elaboration

1
First recorded in 1570–80; from Latin ēlabōrātiōn-, stem of ēlabōrātiō, from ēlabōrāt(us) “worked out” (past participle of ēlabōrāre “to work out, produce through labor”; see elaborate) + -iō -ion

Other words from elaboration

  • self-e·lab·o·ra·tion, noun

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