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COMPREHENSIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does comprehensibility mean?
• COMPREHENSIBILITY (noun)
The noun COMPREHENSIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of comprehensible language or thought
Familiarity information: COMPREHENSIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of comprehensible language or thought
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
comprehensibility; understandability
Hypernyms ("comprehensibility" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comprehensibility"):
legibility; readability (a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read)
intelligibility (the quality of language that is comprehensible)
clarity; clearness; limpidity; lucidity; lucidness; pellucidity (free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression)
coherence; coherency (logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts)
Antonym:
incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)
Derivation:
comprehensible (capable of being comprehended or understood)
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