intelligibility

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Much of it was lost to the audience, since reverberant amplification gave heroic heft to Blanchett’s voice at the cost of intelligibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

"They didn’t share his optimism that physics will be able to actually produce any theory of intelligibility and consciousness which is responsible for the physical picture of the world."

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

Proponents of performing opera in English translation — in English-speaking countries, of course — say that intelligibility is their goal.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021

But like most palindromes, Tenet prizes reversibility over intelligibility: The point of “Able was I ere I saw Elba” is that it reads the same both ways, not that it teaches you anything.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020

They should be regarded as instruments by which new lines of inquiry are indicated; or by the aid of which a provisional coherency and intelligibility may be given to seemingly disconnected groups of phenomena.

From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Huxley, T. H.