intelligibility
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Though such pairs are usually distinguishable by context, reform would cost us this touch of redundancy by which so much of our intelligibility is facilitated.
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- The quality or character of being intelligible; capability of being understood. I call it outline, for the sake of immediate intelligibility; strictly speaking, it is merely the edge of the shade. Ruskin, Elem. of Drawing.
- The property of possessing intelligence or understanding; intellection. The soul's nature consists in intelligibility. Glanville.
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Though such pairs are usually distinguishable by context, reform would cost us this touch of redundancy by which so much of our intelligibility is facilitated.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3 - If we cannot escape before nightfall we will run out of stored energy sometime after dark. — Sentenced To Prism
- However, audibility and intelligibility were not proportionately linked. — A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
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Those objects which are highest in intelligibility, immateriality, and potential to be known are the objects of the highest degree of knowledge.
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Arguments at the most general level for the intelligibility of the void and its relation to the possibility of motion were inconclusive.
— Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century
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- = French intelligibilité = Italian intelligibilità, from Latin as if *intellegibilita(t-)s, from intellegibilis, intelligible: see intelligible.