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intelligibility

in·tel·li·gi·bil·i·ty
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [in-tel-i-juh-bil-i-tee]
    • /ɪnˌtɛl ɪ dʒəˈbɪl ɪ ti/
    • /ɪnˈtel.ɪ.dʒɪ.bl̩/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [in-tel-i-juh-bil-i-tee]
    • /ɪnˌtɛl ɪ dʒəˈbɪl ɪ ti/

Definitions of intelligibility word

  • noun plural intelligibility the quality or condition of being intelligible; capability of being understood. 1
  • noun plural intelligibility something intelligible. 1
  • noun intelligibility The state or quality of being intelligible. 1
  • noun intelligibility That which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible. 0
  • noun intelligibility The quality of recorded speech of every word being understandable. 0
See all 5 definitions of intelligibility

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Origin of intelligibility

First appearance:

before 1600
One of the 39% oldest English words
First recorded in 1600-10; intelligible + -ity

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Parts of speech for Intelligibility

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Intelligibility

intelligibility popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 65% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

intelligibility usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for intelligibility

noun intelligibility

  • simplicity — the state, quality, or an instance of being simple.
  • brightness — the condition of being bright
  • certainty — Certainty is the state of being definite or of having no doubts at all about something.
  • precision — the state or quality of being precise.
  • purity — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
All 70 Synonyms of intelligibility

Antonyms for intelligibility

noun intelligibility

  • inaccuracy — something inaccurate; error.
  • obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
  • dirtiness — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
  • discord — lack of concord or harmony between persons or things: marital discord.
  • nonconformity — failure or refusal to conform, as with established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
All 17 Antonyms of intelligibility

Related words

  • clarity

    The clarity of something such as a book or argument is its quality of being well explained and easy to understand.

  • compressed speech

    speech reproduced on tape at a faster rate than originally spoken, but without loss of intelligibility, by being filtered through a mechanism that deletes very small segments of the original signal at random intervals.

  • delayed speech

    a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.

  • perspicuity

    clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.

  • speech community

    the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.

  • unscramble

    to bring out of a scrambled condition; reduce to order or intelligibility.
All related words to intelligibility

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