Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character of being comprehensible. The character of being such that it may be included.
Wiktionary
- n. The characteristic of being comprehensible; clarity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of comprehensible language or thought
Examples
“In speaking here concerning "comprehensibility," the ex - pression is used in its most modest sense.”
“When Krenek, who had made his name in Europe as the composer of Johnny Spielt Auf, denounced the American requirement of "comprehensibility" as an automatic dilutant, he was really saying that that there was nobody to pay him for incomprehensibility.”
“Technical complexity and volume have grown in recent years at the expense of comprehensibility," he said.”
The Wall Street Journal: Conservatives Know the IMF has it Right
“But perhaps there are some companies which really do not want "comprehensibility.”
The Wall Street Journal: Conservatives Know the IMF has it Right
“See you are incredibly stupid and brainwashed beyond any comprehensibility.”
“He believed, in a way that far outstripped his contemporaries, in the comprehensibility of God's creation, because it was God's creation.”
The Huffington Post: Paul Wallace: Intelligent Design Is Dead: A Christian Perspective
“As Einstein said, “One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.””
“Google's new policy is exemplary in its brevity, comprehensibility, and candor.”
The Huffington Post: Adam Levin: Google's New Privacy Policy: Close But No Cigar
“I like to think of character types as lamps of focus, around which the world resolves itself into comprehensibility.”
“Einstein once commented, in reference to the power of mathematics, "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
The Huffington Post: Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Mathematics and the Religious Impulse
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘comprehensibility’.
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INTERP - challenges
abbreviations, abstractness, abstruse terms, accent, activation of kno..., adequacy, allusions, arcane expressions, attention splitting, availability of i..., badly drafted speech, baroque sentences and 171 more...
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EN - longest (>15 char) words
compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, counterrevolution..., counterrevolutionary, electroencephalogram, electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., institutionalisation, institutionalization and 634 more...
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samuraizack's Words
floccinaucinihili..., pneumonoultramicr..., bombastic, existentialistic, velocipede, aglet, anatomical snuffbox, wonk, tang, funambulist, quakebuttock, flews and 390 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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simple & useful6
vaporize, potentiality, lamentation, finite, hobbling, whiffed, accessorizing, negligible, amplification, grumbly, trumpeting, snares and 65 more...
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insyncophasia
chrononaut, demonym, thaumaturgy, pavor nocturnus, veritas, abdicate, affinity, ambivalent, abstruse, ethereal, antebellum, dystopia and 28 more...
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