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INTELLIGIBILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of language that is comprehensible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("intelligibility" is a kind of...):
comprehensibility; understandability (the quality of comprehensible language or thought)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intelligibility"):
readability (the quality of written language that makes it easy to read and understand)
speech intelligibility (the intelligibility of speech (usually measured in the presence of noise or distortion))
Antonym:
unintelligibility (incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible)
Derivation:
intelligible (capable of being apprehended or understood)
intelligible (well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly)
