intelligibility

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Much of it was lost to the audience, since reverberant amplification gave heroic heft to Blanchett’s voice at the cost of intelligibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

“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

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

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)