Definition of "explanative" []

• Explanatory. (adjective)

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• "StevenAttewell: Thanks for the reasoned and explanative response."
• "Economics is dominated by Calculus when it really needs to have a graph theory aka network theory, vertices and edges component to be explanative and predictive today."
• "He admits that even a descriptive psychology will seek to explicate the causal relationships of life, but that it must differ from explanative psychology by not trying to"