Description vs. Explanation
Descriptionnoun
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
Descriptionnoun
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Descriptionnoun
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
Descriptionnoun
(taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
Descriptionnoun
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Descriptionnoun
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
Descriptionnoun
A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
Descriptionnoun
a statement that represents something in words
Descriptionnoun
the act of describing something
Descriptionnoun
sort or variety;
Descriptionnoun
a spoken or written account of a person, object, or event
Descriptionnoun
the action of giving a spoken or written account
Descriptionnoun
a type or class of people or things
Description
Description is the pattern of narrative development that aims to make vivid a place, object, character, or group. Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration.
Explanationnoun
The act or process of explaining.
Explanationnoun
Something that explains, makes understandable.
Explanationnoun
A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
Explanationnoun
The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
Explanationnoun
That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.
Explanationnoun
The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense.
Explanationnoun
A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.
Explanationnoun
a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.;
Explanationnoun
thought that makes something comprehensible
Explanationnoun
the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible;
Explanation
An explanation is a set of statements usually constructed to describe a set of facts which clarifies the causes, context, and consequences of those facts. This description may establish rules or laws, and may clarify the existing rules or laws in relation to any objects, or phenomena examined.Explanation, in philosophy, is a set of statements that makes intelligible the existence or occurrence of an object, event, or state of affairs.
