Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Audibility.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being audible.

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  • noun The state or quality of being audible.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear

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Examples

  • Muoi, make slumberings of so great audibleness I find not rest.

    Seven Maids of Far Cathay Ed. Bing Ding

  • Her voice was habitually subdued to the limit of audibleness; she spoke with precision, and in language very free from vulgarisms either of thought or phrase.

    Thyrza George Gissing 1880

  • Of all this Daisy delivered herself with the sweetest, brightest audibleness, looking now at her hostess and now round the room, while she gave a series of little pats, round her shoulders, to the edges of her dress.

    Daisy Miller: A Study 1879

  • Of all this Daisy delivered herself with the sweetest, brightest audibleness, looking now at her hostess and now round the room, while she gave a series of little pats, round her shoulders, to the edges of her dress.

    Daisy Miller Henry James 1879

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