unintelligibility

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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

At times during the trial, it was unclear how much unintelligibility was caused by mistranslation and how much by the deliberate indirection of witnesses.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2015

The example of these three masters of the vaudeville, while determining his vocation, made him diffident; and for some time he composed nothing but amphigouris—verses whose merit was measured by their unintelligibility.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various