intelligibility

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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

The book still needs what Harriet, as a child, called “footmarks”—not to present incidentally interesting facts but, rather, to provide a basic intelligibility.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019

To great effect, this lack of narrative intelligibility challenges the implicit bargain between the film and viewer regarding the nature of the truth.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2019

But we are speaking of the foundation of a belief—not the intelligibility of a language.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various