explainability

English

Etymology

From explain +‎ -ability.

Noun

explainability (usually uncountable, plural explainabilities)

1. The state of being explainable.
   • 2025 November 1, Aisha Down, quoting Kenneth Church, “Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire?”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “There’s this whole area of explainability, interpretability, where people want to understand how stuff works,” said Church. “With the older methods, you can actually get an answer to what’s going on. The latest, greatest stuff is kind of like magic. It works a lot better than the older stuff. But when it goes, it’s really bad.”

Synonyms

• explicability