explanandum

English

Etymology

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