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legibility

/lɛd͡ʒ.ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/US/ˌlɛd͡ʒ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/

legibility noun: the property of being legible or easily readable.

Noun

legibility (countable and uncountable, plural legibilities)

  1. The property of being legible or easily readable.
    • The legibility of this text is questionable: half the people asked said it was almost illegible, but the other half said it was easy to read.
    • The legibility of a type-face is very largely dependent on the absence of similarity between those characters of pairs or triplets which are the most easily mistaken for one another.1922, Lucien Alphonse Legros, A Note on the Legibility of Printed Matter
    Synonyms:
    readability

legibility meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

legibility in Tamil

திருத்தமான, தெளிவான

legibility in Malayalam

clarity, readability, clearness
വ്യക്തത, സ്പഷ്ടത, എളുപ്പം വായിക്കാവുന്ന സ്ഥിതി, സംവേദ്യത, ഗ്രാഹ്യത, പാരായണക്ഷമത

Synonyms of legibility

Antonyms

Forms of legibility

plurallegibilities

Words formed from legibility

Questions about legibility

What does legibility mean?
Legibility means the property of being legible or easily readable.
What is legibility in Tamil?
Legibility in Tamil is திருத்தமான, தெளிவான. See Legibility meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is legibility?
Legibility is a noun.
How do you pronounce legibility?
Legibility is pronounced /lɛd͡ʒ.ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ (UK).
What is the plural of legibility?
The plural of legibility is legibilities.

Words near legibility in the dictionary

  1. leghole
  2. legholes
  3. leghorn
  4. leghorns
  5. legibilities
  6. legibility
  7. legible
  8. legibleness
  9. legibly
  10. legicide
  11. legiferate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: legibility (page history and authors); legibility (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); legibility (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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