explanandum

explanandum

English

Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin explanandum.

    Noun

    explanandum (plural explananda)

    1. That which is to be explained (cf. explanans).
      • 2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 245:
        Yet the most convincing thing was not this sense of familiarity, or the shards of explananda that my theory could account for.

    See also

    Latin

    Verb

    explānandum

    1. accusative gerund of explānō