explicature.

An utterance's explicit meaning after its linguistic content is developed through contextual interpretation.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• derive an explicature
• explicature of an utterance
• distinguish explicature from implicature

On the page

In the swimming discussion, the explicature of it's too cold concerned the water's suitability for swimming.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal / analytical. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Singular explicature; plural explicatures. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Oxford reference and Cambridge pragmatics excerpts verify contextually developed explicit meaning, distinct from further implicature. Full inaccessible pages are not claimed as read. Writing functions: language analysis, conceptual distinction.