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The quality of language that is comprehensible
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intelligibility
Word definitions for intelligibility in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 That which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible. 2 The quality of recorded speech of every word being understandable.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from intelligible + -ity .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In speech communication, intelligibility is a measure of how comprehensible speech is in given conditions. Intelligibility is affected by the quality of the speech signal, the type and level of background noise, reverberation, and, for speech over communication ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intelligibility \In*tel`li*gi*bil"i*ty\, [Cf. F. intelligilibilit['e].] The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of language that is comprehensible [ant: unintelligibility ]
Usage examples of intelligibility.
To avoid the Scylla of repetition and the Charybdis of intelligibility, keys would have to be, Mauborgne realized, both endless and senseless.
A second point: Whereas a Bach fugue cannot do without any one of its voices, we can easily imagine the Hanna Wendling short story or the essay on the disintegration of values as separate, freestanding texts whose deletion would cost the novel none of its meaning or intelligibility.
In this light, science, for scientific materialists, becomes an indispensable quest for intelligibility, without which the world and human existence become meaningless.
What a half-dozen boys taken out of our own ranks would have done with ease in an hour or so, these Rebels worried over all of the afternoon, and then their register of us was so imperfect, badly written and misspelled, that the Yankee clerks afterwards detailed for the purpose, never could succeed in reducing it to intelligibility.
According to the hermeneuticists, who describe the phenomenon from the inside [Left-Hand], nondiscursive practices 'govern' human action by setting up a horizon of intelligibility in which only certain discursive practices and their objects and subjects make sense.