intelligibility
Example Sentences
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Indeed, Christie's own residual longing for intelligibility ended up mucking up his own otherwise sick burn of Ramaswamy.
From Salon • Aug. 25, 2023
I appreciated its intelligibility and, from where I stood, its edge.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 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
Yet these great thinkers, seeing the intelligibility of nature, its uniformity of laws and operations, without a knowledge of electricity were forced to this conclusion.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.