intelligibility
Example Sentences
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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
To great effect, this lack of narrative intelligibility challenges the implicit bargain between the film and viewer regarding the nature of the truth.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2019
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
From him things derive at once their intelligibility and their being.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
