readability

Noun

Meaning

The state of being readable; readableness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

legibility clarity comprehension readable intelligibility comprehensible clearness plainness legibly awareness neatness comprehensibility legible audibility clearer
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Antonyms

ambiguity darkness obscurity opacity equivocation obliquity
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Hypernyms

intelligibility comprehensibility understandability

Related terms

readable unreadable readableness

Examples

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. Jamie Zawinski

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences. Alain Badiou

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly... Larry Wall

Advantages of electronic paper includes low power usage (power is only drawn when the display is updated), flexibility and better readability than most displays. Source: Internet

A key, by contrast, is intended for use by the software that is implementing the cryptographic algorithm, and so human readability etc. is not required. Source: Internet

An additional readability problem is that in conditional jumps such as the one shown above, the conditional instruction (which skips around the JMP) highlights the opposite of the condition of interest. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

read-write read-write memory read-write storage readable readable handwriting readableness