Other forms: expositions
An exposition is a clear full explanation, or a large public show. A careful exposition.
The explaining sense belongs to writing and teaching, and the exhibition sense to trade fairs. In a story the exposition is the part that tells you what you need to know, and it is the hardest to write well.
1nounexpositionA clear full explanation, or a large public show.
“The first chapter is exposition and the book only starts on page forty.”
exposition is an explanation.
Latin expositio comes from exponere, to set out, from ex plus ponere, to place.
Latin
expositiō
Old French
esposicion
Middle English
exposicioun
English, today
exposition
Built from
From Middle English exposicioun, from Old French esposicion, from Latin expositiō, from expono (“to put forth”). The sense meaning "exhibition" is a later exposition.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA