clarification

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: clar=i=fi=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

clarification, n. [Cf. F. clarification, L. clarificatio glorification.].

•  The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of freeing from obscurities.  [1913 Webster]

  "The clarification of men's ideas."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

clarification

allegorization, bolting, colature, cracking, decipherment, decoding, demonstration, demythologization, destructive distillation, distillation, easing, editing, edulcoration, elucidation, elution, elutriation, emendation, enlightenment, essentialization, euhemerism, exegesis, exemplification, expediting, expedition, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, extraction, facilitation, filtering, filtration, hastening, illumination, illustration, leaching, light, lixiviation, percolation, purification, quickening, rationale, reason, refinement, riddling, screening, separation, sieving, sifting, simplification, simplifying, smoothing, solution, speeding, spiritualization, straining, streamlining, sublimation, unlocking, winnowing