intelligibility
Example Sentences
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She could identify that it's not just the jackhammer per se, but it's when someone is whispering something just outside a range of intelligibility.
From Salon • May 29, 2022
I appreciated its intelligibility and, from where I stood, its edge.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 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
Tilney appears to like his characters more than Holsinger does, and yet that affection never translates into specificity, intelligibility.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2019
And in this particular instance, there is a want of coherency and intelligibility in Saxo's account, which in itself affords a strong presumption that it is imperfect.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
