intelligibility

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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

In that era, the idea of opera as drama was taken seriously, and intelligibility was essential.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 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

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

For those, on the other hand, who believe in the influence of discarnate spirits, this scheme affords a path of transition, and as it were a provisional intelligibility.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)