intelligibility
Example Sentences
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"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
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
The book still needs what Harriet, as a child, called “footmarks”—not to present incidentally interesting facts but, rather, to provide a basic intelligibility.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019
A quiet, self-possessed manner, and intelligibility should be regarded as essential at such times.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.