intelligibility

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

legibility lucidity clearness perspicuity explicitness comprehensibility evidence sense definition focus accuracy precision simplicity consistency purity
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Antonyms

unintelligibility contrast complexity confusion darkness ambiguity
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Hypernyms

comprehensibility understandability

Hyponyms

readability speech intelligibility

Examples

Aesthetics Chopin's poesie sonore aesthetics included a deliberate cultivation of a barbarian approach in production, using raw or crude sound manipulations to explore the area between distortion and intelligibility. Source: Internet

Among its highest priorities is to maintain intelligibility with the language spoken in Sweden. Source: Internet

Ethnologue lists Mon dialects as Martaban-Moulmein (Central Mon, Mon Te), Pegu (Mon Tang, Northern Mon), and Ye (Mon Nya, Southern Mon), with high mutual intelligibility among them. Source: Internet

For example, in voiceband speech coding, only information in the frequency band 400 Hz to 3500 Hz is transmitted but the reconstructed signal is still adequate for intelligibility. Source: Internet

Beyond that distance dialects and languages lose mutual intelligibility. Source: Internet

By many general criteria of mutual intelligibility, the Continental Scandinavian languages could very well be considered dialects of a common Scandinavian language. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

intelligently portrayed intelligentness intelligentsia intelligible intelligibleness intelligibly