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intelligibleness

intelligibleness noun: the quality of being intelligible.

Noun

intelligibleness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being intelligible.
    • A defect running through his otherwise admirable modes of instruction, as it did through all his modes of thought, was that of trusting too much to the intelligibleness of the abstract, when not embodied in the concrete.1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
    • Clearness, intelligibleness, exactitude were insisted upon.1913, Charles Wharton Stork, The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Origin of intelligibleness

From intelligible + -ness.

Questions about intelligibleness

What does intelligibleness mean?
Intelligibleness means the quality of being intelligible.
What part of speech is intelligibleness?
Intelligibleness is a noun.

Words near intelligibleness in the dictionary

  1. intelligentsia
  2. intelligentsias
  3. intelligibilities
  4. intelligibility
  5. intelligible
  6. intelligibleness
  7. intelligibly
  8. intemerate
  9. intemerated
  10. intemerateness
  11. intemperament

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