comprehensibility

• 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. —  O MacGuffin
• Pronunciation-related issues such as comprehensibility, accent, and the mutual intelligibility of varieties of world Englishes are central to many questions in applied linguistics. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• And at the level of language and comprehensibility, and in the wake of the the wide middle of the commentatorial field, I was reduced, through the weekend, to feeling as though into my oatmeal someone had mortar and pestled a mortal dose of pills labeled: “Warning: Kill kill kill kills. †—  Harper's Magazine
• The great beauty of astronomy is not what is incomprehensible in it, but its comprehensibility--its geometrical exactitude. —  Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers
• By constructing it out of forms less charged, more fluent, and more in the nature of arabesques than those he habitually employs he gave to his scheme continuity and easy comprehensibility: but never did he allow those forms to subside into mere coloured spaces, or the lines to become mere flourishes: always every detail was doing something, and so the whole was significant and alive. —  Since Cézanne

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