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illegibility

American  
[i-lej-uh-bil-i-tee] / ɪˌlɛdʒ əˈbɪl ɪ ti /

noun

  1. the quality, condition, or degree of being illegible.


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Prolonged dread is the mark of this moment, of its seeming inscrutability, its illegibility, where the improbable has become likely.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2023

The abstraction of the design renders its daytime illegibility a little less disappointing.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2020

I was known, by then, as an overly conscientious student, and most of the teachers ignored the illegibility of my new handwriting.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

Some of them, I’m sure, don’t even look at the old stones, everywhere lurching this way or that, covered in lichens, inscriptions faded, sometimes to the point of illegibility.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2016

I think that Loft should be added to the god and the brute, to form a trinity of impeccable illegibility.

From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony

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