elaboration
[ ih-lab-uh-rey-shuh n ]
/ ɪˌlæb əˈreɪ ʃən /
noun
an act or instance of elaborating.
the state of being elaborated; elaborateness.
something that is elaborated.
Psychiatry.
an unconscious process of expanding and embellishing a detail, especially while recalling and describing a representation in a dream so that latent content of the dream is brought into a logical and comprehensible order.
Origin of elaboration
OTHER WORDS FROM elaboration
self-e·lab·o·ra·tion, nounWords nearby elaboration
el segundo,
el toro,
el.,
elaborate,
elaborated code,
elaboration,
elaenia,
elaeoptene,
elaeothesium,
elagabalus,
elaine
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Medical definitions for elaboration
elaboration
[ ĭ-lăb′ə-rā′shən ]
n.
The process of working out in detail by labor and study.
The mental process occurring partly during dreaming and partly during the recalling or telling of a dream, by means of which the latent content of the dream is brought into increasingly more coherent and logical order, resulting in the manifest content of the dream.