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

The range of literary excellence, of spiritual connotation and of intelligibility of subject matter in the so-called Gnostic hymns is so wide that it is difficult to evaluate them.

From Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries by Messenger, Ruth Ellis