Synonyms of the word

etymologizing

• v. present participle of etymologize.

account

• n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings…
• n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
• n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action…
• n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
• n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
• n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
• n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
• n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
• n. An authorization to use a service.
• n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
• n. Profit; advantage.
• v. to provide explanation.
• v. to count.

derivation

• n. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
• n. The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition,…
• n. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy.
• n. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
• n. That from which a thing is derived.
• n. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
• n. (mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called…
• n. (medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a…

deriving

• v. present participle of derive.

explanation

• n. The act or process of explaining.
• n. Something that explains, makes understandable.
• n. (euphemistic) An excuse, apologetic justification not based on enough evidence.