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What is the adjective for explanationism?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs explain and explicate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

explanatory
  1. Intended to serve as an explanation.
  2. (of a person) Disposed to explain.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It could be best described as a selection of readings accompanied with annotations and explanatory notes.”
      “The primary explanatory guide would be evolution of grades of organisms and their structures.”
      “At times the explanatory zeal of the commentators impels them into excess and absurdity.”
explanative
  1. That serves to explain; explanatory
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This article presents definitions and explanative examples for a collection of key metadata vocabulary terms.”
      “Hermann Ebbinghaus wrote an extended review which claimed that Dilthey still relies on hypotheses and that the differences between explanative and descriptive psychologies are minimal.”
      “These laws of metamorphosis are conceived as explanative to the extent that they appeal to an overall acquired psychic nexus as a definitive context.”
explainable
  1. Able to be explained or understood
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Cattle mutilations are logically explainable only as Extraterrestrial activities.”
      “But they may be explainable for a more simple reason, other than the lateness of the hour.”
      “For no explainable reason, a good deal of the original music has been either altered or removed altogether.”
explicable
  1. Able to be explained.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Their etiology and teleology are explicable within a moral and historical paradigm.”
      “The trend is explicable in terms of a set of often unrelated and often seemingly innocuous market decisions and administrative policies.”
      “Seen in this context, the sudden eruption of the Global Justice Movement in 1999, becomes explicable.”
explanable
explicatable
explicate
  1. (obsolete) Evolved; unfolded.
explained
explaining
explicated
explicating
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