LEGIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legibility mean? 

• LEGIBILITY (noun)
  The noun LEGIBILITY has 2 senses:

1. distinctness that makes perception easy

2. a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read

  Familiarity information: LEGIBILITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distinctness that makes perception easy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

discernability; legibility

Hypernyms ("legibility" is a kind of...):

distinctness; sharpness (the quality of being sharp and clear)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

legibility; readability

Hypernyms ("legibility" is a kind of...):

comprehensibility; understandability (the quality of comprehensible language or thought)

Domain category:

handwriting (the activity of writing by hand)

Antonym:

illegibility (the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered)

Derivation:

legible ((of handwriting, print, etc.) capable of being read or deciphered)

 Context examples 

In this case, looking at the bold, strong hand of the one, and the rather broken-backed appearance of the other, which still retains its legibility although the t’s have begun to lose their crossing, we can say that the one was a young man and the other was advanced in years without being positively decrepit.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)