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| Concept: | Intelligibility. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
be intelligible; speak for itself, speak volumes; tell its own tale, lie on the surface., render intelligible; popularize, simplify, clear up; elucidate (explain)., understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding.
-adjectives
intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent., easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized., plain, distinct, explicit; positive; definite (precise)., graphic; expressive (meaning); illustrative (explanatory)., unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable (manifest); unconfused; legible, recognizable; obvious.
-adverbs
in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English.
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| Antonyms: | unintelligibility |
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| Main Entry: | coherence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | adherence, attachment, bond, cementation, cling, clinging, comprehensibility, concordance, conformity, congruity, connection, consistency, consonance, construction, continuity, correspondence, inseparability, inseparableness, integrity, intelligibility, rationality, relations, solidarity, stickage, tenacity, union, unity |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incoherence, incongruity, nonsense, unintelligibility |
| Main Entry: | limpidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | limpidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | lucidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | pellucidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | pellucidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | perspicuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Notes: | perspicacity means shrewdness and applies to people; perspicuity means easily understood and applies to things |
| Main Entry: | perspicuousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
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