explainability.

The capacity of an outcome or system to support an understandable explanation of how or why it arises.

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Words that belong together

• explainability of an outcome
• system explainability

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The outcome’s explainability improved when the intermediate decisions were recorded.

System explainability was tested against what the explanation actually revealed.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: criterion analysis, relative importance, potential and actual distinction, evidence interpretation. Disciplines: academic writing, institutional analysis, research and conceptual explanation. Commonness: uncommon.