/i lab'euh ray"sheuhn/ , n.
1. an act or instance of elaborating.
2. the state of being elaborated; elaborateness.
3. something that is elaborated.
4. Psychiatry. an unconscious process of expanding and embellishing a detail, esp. while recalling and describing a representation in a dream so that latent content of the dream is brought into a logical and comprehensible order.
[ 1570-80; elaboration- (s. of elaboratio ), equiv. to elaborat- (see ELABORATE) + -ion- -ION ]