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illegibility

illegibility noun: the characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.

Noun

illegibility (countable and uncountable, plural illegibilities)

  1. The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
    • The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote.
    • “Poor thing! poor thing!” says Briggs (who was thinking of twenty-four years back, and that hectic young writing-master whose lock of yellow hair, and whose letters, beautiful in their illegibility, she cherished in her old desk upstairs).1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “chapter 15”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

illegibility meaning in Tamil

illegibility in Tamil

தெளிவின்மை

Antonyms of illegibility

Forms of illegibility

pluralillegibilities

Questions about illegibility

What does illegibility mean?
Illegibility means the characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
What is illegibility in Tamil?
Illegibility in Tamil is தெளிவின்மை. See Illegibility meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is illegibility?
Illegibility is a noun.
What is the plural of illegibility?
The plural of illegibility is illegibilities.

Words near illegibility in the dictionary

  1. illegall
  2. illegally
  3. illegalness
  4. illegals
  5. illegibilities
  6. illegibility
  7. illegible
  8. illegibleness
  9. illegibly
  10. illegit
  11. illegitimacies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: illegibility (page history and authors); illegibility (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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