Meaning & use

Audibility

noun·Academic

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The quality or degree of being able to be heard.

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Engineers tested the speaker's audibility from every seat in the auditorium.

Poor audibility over the phone made it hard to catch every word.

A note on using this word

Audibility is often measured in decibels and depends on both the loudness of a sound and background noise levels.

Words with a similar meaning

hearability

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