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intelligibility

[in-tel-i-juh-bil-i-tee] / ɪnˌtɛl ɪ dʒəˈbɪl ɪ ti /












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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

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

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2023

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 question which it raises and which has afflicted us even to the present day is not primarily the question of fact, but the question of intelligibility, as the controversy over mindstuff abundantly attests.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.




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