intelligibility

[ in-tel-i-juh-bil-i-tee ]

noun,plural in·tel·li·gi·bil·i·ties for 2.

Origin of intelligibility

First recorded in 1600–10; intelligible + -ity

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Although comprehensibility of speech is often lost in noisy or highly reverberant situations, we manage to retrieve lost information by concocting lost sounds—filling in the blanks where intelligibility falters.
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They vary in pitch and intelligibility as they reach their excited climaxes—or when she interrupts them to coo at Max.
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The intelligibility of the exhibition allows visitors to engage with the issues under debate.
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(From the above discussion about the intelligibility of numbers) let us now return to what we said in the beginning.
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His chief aim in writing was plainness and intelligibility, but his want of order and logical precision thwarted his purpose.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 | Various

Whether this be an invention or not, it well characterizes his easy intelligibility.
The Brothers' War | John Calvin Reed
To attain scholarly accuracy combined with practical intelligibility was, then, the task of the translator.
Early Theories of Translation | Flora Ross Amos
The instruction at school was out of date, inasmuch as, in every branch, it lacked intelligibility.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth | George Brandes

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