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unintelligibility

unintelligibility noun: the quality or condition of being unintelligible.

Noun

unintelligibility (countable and uncountable, plural unintelligibilities)

  1. (uncountable) The quality or condition of being unintelligible.
    • Some of them have, in fact, given them a theoretical elaboration which for subtlety, refinement, and elegance need make no apologies to the older economics, and which remains faithful to older theorizing in at least one respect, that the tradition of unintelligibility to the layman is scrupulously...1958, Jacob Viner, The Long View and the Short, page 112
  2. (countable) Something that is unintelligible.

unintelligibility meaning in Tamil

unintelligibility in Tamil

கிலிட்டம்

Synonyms of unintelligibility

Antonyms

Forms of unintelligibility

pluralunintelligibilities

Origin of unintelligibility

From un- + intelligibility.

Questions about unintelligibility

What does unintelligibility mean?
Unintelligibility means the quality or condition of being unintelligible.
What is unintelligibility in Tamil?
Unintelligibility in Tamil is கிலிட்டம். See Unintelligibility meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unintelligibility?
Unintelligibility is a noun.
What is the plural of unintelligibility?
The plural of unintelligibility is unintelligibilities.

Words near unintelligibility in the dictionary

  1. unintelligences
  2. unintelligent
  3. unintelligently
  4. unintelligentsia
  5. unintelligibilities
  6. unintelligibility
  7. unintelligible
  8. unintelligibleness
  9. unintelligibly
  10. unintended
  11. unintended consequence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unintelligibility (page history and authors); unintelligibility (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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