intelligibility
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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
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
If intelligibility appears in things, it does so like beauty or use, because the mind of man, in so far as it is adapted to them, finds its just exercise in their society.
From Character and Opinion in the United States by George Santayana
