intelligibility

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Lang also insists upon amplification, which can or cannot enhance the intelligibility of text.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

Indeed, Christie's own residual longing for intelligibility ended up mucking up his own otherwise sick burn of Ramaswamy.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2023

Proponents of performing opera in English translation — in English-speaking countries, of course — say that intelligibility is their goal.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021

But like most palindromes, Tenet prizes reversibility over intelligibility: The point of “Able was I ere I saw Elba” is that it reads the same both ways, not that it teaches you anything.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020

As an engraver his work is more conspicuous for its vigour, spirit and intelligibility than for finish and beauty of line.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various