different between narration vs explanation

English

Etymology

From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narr?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n???e?.??n/, [?n???e?.?n?]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n????e?.??n/, [?n????e?.?n?]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

narration (countable and uncountable, plural narrations)

1. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
2. That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
3. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

Related terms

• narrate
• narrative
• narrator

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????? (nar?shon)

Translations

References

• narration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• atranorin

French

Etymology

Latin narr?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)
2. narration (literary device)
3. (rhetoric) narration

Related terms

• narrer

Further reading

• “narration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Latin narr?ti?.

Noun

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)

English

Alternative forms

• explaination (misspelling or obsolete spelling)

Etymology

From Latin explanatio (“an explanation, interpretation”), from explanare (“explain”); see explain.

Morphologically explain +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kspl??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

explanation (countable and uncountable, plural explanations)

1. The act or process of explaining.

   The explanation was long and drawn-out.

2. Something that explains, makes understandable.

   An explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found.

3. A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.

Synonyms

• (act or process of explaining): clarification; elucidation; elaboration; explaining; femsplaining (pej., particularly by a feminist to a man); mansplaining, mansplanation (pej., particularly by a man to a woman)

Related terms

• explain
• explanatory
• explicative
• explicator
• explicatory

Translations

Further reading

• explanation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• explanation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.