unintelligibility

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Kaufmann opted instead for a consistent legato, sometimes at odds with the orchestra and, in extreme cases, slurring phrases into unintelligibility.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2022

But even then, the compensation for one form of unintelligibility is the over-intelligibility of conventional athletic dance, entertaining at first until it becomes numbingly familiar, as is the generally banal, old-fashioned staging.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2018

After showing footage of Giuliani’s interview with Stephanopoulos, Kimmel joked about the unintelligibility of Giuliani’s words.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2018

A few theories: simple component parts, weaponized unintelligibility, dark innuendo, and power signifiers.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2016

Had Bentham been a mystical philosopher, he would, we may conjecture, have achieved a masterpiece of unintelligibility which all his followers would have extolled as containing the very essence of his teaching.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir