Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being illegible.
Wiktionary
- n. The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being illegible.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered
Examples
“A kind of illegibility, though a different kind, stole over Mr”
“Complaints that "some of the writing of the Pusrawi doctor's report cannot be comprehended because of" illegibility "are hardly convincing, for doctors handwriting are noted for their sometimes illegible scrawl but that does not mean overall what he says cannot be understood!”
“Getting Upper: Graphic Designers and Artists Reconsider the Alphabet charges twenty-six designers with re-imagining a letter from the alphabet, using the illegibility and deconstructive nature of graffiti as their starting point.”
The Huffington Post: Bettina Korek: PLAN ForYourArt: May 12-18
“The show smartly offers visitors a booklet with transcriptions of all letters on view, a low-tech remedy for the perennial illegibility of such exhibits.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Best of Dickens's Life and Times
“Do they even take into account that he has poor handwriting, so what they perceive to be spelling mistakes may actually just be illegibility?”
“In one letter, written when Hawthorne was still a teenager, he asks his mother what she would think of him becoming an author, playfully noting "indeed I think the illegibility of my handwriting is very authorlike.”
The Huffington Post: Carolyn Vega: Collecting Hawthorne: (Not) Only a Woman's Hair
“Remember when Wired magazine first launched, and illegibility was a design trend?”
“Gorky abstracted from nature to the point of illegibility, but the grounded landscape structure of so much of his mature work owed a debt to Dali.”
The Huffington Post: Mat Gleason: The Arshile Gorky Retrospective at LA MOCA
“As Hollywood has co-opted (and arguably corrupted) so much of the geek canon in recent years, the line between true-nerd and faux-nerd has become blurred to the point of illegibility.”
David Weiner: Star Trek Cologne: The Next Generation of Nerdom
“The new system has squished my favorite avatar into illegibility!”
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stochastic, disputant, state-led, almshouse, exceptionality, bibliographical, t-test, z-score, personal/social, neoplastic, stroma, ludic and 288 more...
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