elicitation.

The process of drawing out information, responses, or reactions through questions, prompts, or other stimuli.

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Words that belong together

• data elicitation
• elicitation of responses
• requirements elicitation

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The protocol used pictures rather than direct questions for the elicitation of children's descriptions.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal / analytical. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Commonness: moderately common (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Cambridge verifies uncountable process of obtaining/producing information or a reaction; a useful named method/process rather than a duplicate ordinary inflection of elicit. Writing functions: research methodology, data collection.