READABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does readability mean? 

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

1. the quality of written language that makes it easy to read and understand

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

  Familiarity information: READABILITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• READABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of written language that makes it easy to read and understand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

intelligibility (the quality of language that is comprehensible)

Derivation:

readable (easily deciphered)

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 ("readability" is a kind of...):

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

Domain category:

handwriting (the activity of writing by hand)

Derivation:

readable (easily deciphered)