Elaboration vs. Elaborateness — What's the Difference?

Elaboration (from Latin ex- "out" + laborare "to labor") is the act of adding more information to existing information to create a more complex, emergent whole. Elaboration is the variant of development implementation: creating new structure relations, putting together, drawing up.

Planned or executed with painstaking attention to numerous parts or details

Planned or executed with painstaking attention to numerous parts or details

Intricate and rich in detail

Intricate and rich in detail

To work out with care and detail; develop thoroughly

To work out with care and detail; develop thoroughly

To produce or compose (a substance, for example) from simpler elements.

To produce or compose (a substance, for example) from simpler elements.

To explain something at greater length or in greater detail

To explain something at greater length or in greater detail

(uncountable) The state of being elaborate

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

(countable) Something elaborate

The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order

Marked by elaborately complex detail

(computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.

An ornate appearance; being elaborately decorated

(electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.

(psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

Addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail;

The result of improving something;

A discussion that provides additional information

Marked by elaborately complex detail

Developing in intricate and painstaking detail