intelligibility

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Much of it was lost to the audience, since reverberant amplification gave heroic heft to Blanchett’s voice at the cost of intelligibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

He long ago left behind intelligibility, at least in the conventional sense.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2023

She could identify that it's not just the jackhammer per se, but it's when someone is whispering something just outside a range of intelligibility.

From Salon • May 29, 2022

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

Its intelligibility depends chiefly on the difficulty of forging anything like it;—its credit much on national character, but ultimately always on the existence of substantial means of meeting its demand.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John