Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The capability of being understood, or the quality of being apprehensible.
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- noun The quality of being
apprehensible .
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Examples
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But while his colleagues stressed doubt in the apprehensibility of reality, he chose to believe in the alliance of language with matter and the body.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 - Presentation Speech 2008
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I have lived with all these races in their own countries and -- apart from a fatal monkey-like apprehensibility which passes for intelligence but, as a matter of fact, precludes it -- have found chiefly this to admire in them, that they are prolific and kind to their offspring.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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