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Intelligibility

noun

The quality of language that is comprehensible.

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"Intelligibility" Quotes from Famous Books

... degree that he chooses, substitute chalk sketching for sculpture. They are curiously mingled by the Romans. The bas-reliefs of the Arc d'Orange are small, and would be confused, though in bold relief, if they depended for intelligibility on the relief only; but each figure is outlined by a strong incision at its edge into the background, and all the ornaments on the armor are simply drawn with incised lines, and not cut out at all. A similar use of lines is made by the Gothic nations in all their early sculpture, ...

— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin

... occurred, oddly enough, that if, shortly before the girl's interest in his companion had sharpened her sense for the messages then transmitted, her immediate vision of himself had the effect, while she counted his seventy words, of preventing intelligibility. His words were mere numbers, they told her nothing whatever; and after he had gone she was in possession of no name, of no address, of no meaning, of nothing but a vague sweet sound and an immense impression. ...

— In the Cage • Henry James

Words linked to "Intelligibility" : readability, understandability, intelligible, speech intelligibility, unintelligibility, comprehensibility