UNINTELLIGIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unintelligibility mean? 

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

1. nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible

2. incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible

  Familiarity information: UNINTELLIGIBILITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNINTELLIGIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

incoherence; incoherency; unintelligibility

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

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unintelligibility"):

word salad (jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia)

Derivation:

unintelligible (hard or impossible to understand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)

Antonym:

intelligibility (the quality of language that is comprehensible)

Derivation:

unintelligible (poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise)