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

"They didn’t share his optimism that physics will be able to actually produce any theory of intelligibility and consciousness which is responsible for the physical picture of the world."

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

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

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