INTELLIGIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intelligibility mean? 

• INTELLIGIBILITY (noun)
  The noun INTELLIGIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of language that is comprehensible

  Familiarity information: INTELLIGIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTELLIGIBILITY (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)