Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an explanatory manner; by way of explanation; with a view to explain.

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  • adverb With regard to explanatory power

Etymologies

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explanatory +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • You see, "explanatorily," they aren't my real relations. "

    Jewel Clara Louise Burnham 1890

  • The same response goes for the festival's opening-night movie, rather self-explanatorily titled "Score: A Hockey Musical."

    The Other Big Show: Toronto Film Festival 2010

  • Each is explanatorily independent from the other, (although not from God).

    Prologue 2009

  • Stunny: Theism asserts that reality is by metaphysical necessity non-capricious, since theism is the hypothesis that the ontologically and explanatorily ultimate reality is necessarily and perfectly rational.

    An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris 2007

  • Many may share some of the reservations of their Behaviorist predecessors about the place of introspection and subjectivity in science, but they take the view that imagery must be real (and scientifically interesting) because it is explanatorily necessary: The results of many experiments on cognitive functioning, they hold, cannot be satisfactorily explained without making appeal to the storage and processing of imaginal mental representations.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Use/Identity Theorists claim that their theories are explanatorily more powerful than traditional semantic theories.

    Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009

  • I don't understand your use of the word 'suppose', as if considering mind as foundational, ontologically and explanatorily, weren't the default position throughout recorded history.

    A Useless Critic 2007

  • Theism asserts that reality is by metaphysical necessity non-capricious, since theism is the hypothesis that the ontologically and explanatorily ultimate reality is necessarily and perfectly rational.

    An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris 2007

  • I don't understand your use of the word 'suppose', as if considering mind as foundational, ontologically and explanatorily, weren't the default position throughout recorded history.

    A Useless Critic 2007

  • Since the scenario is conceivable, it is possible, and since it is possible, then whatever consciousness is, it is explanatorily independent of those activities.

    Coordinated Evolution 2007

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