Meaning & use
intelligibility
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The quality of being clear enough to understand.
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Background noise reduced the intelligibility of the announcer's voice.
Researchers study how accent affects the intelligibility of speech to non-native listeners.
A note on using this word
Intelligibility is especially used in linguistics, acoustics, and communication studies to describe how easily speech or writing can be understood.
Words with a similar meaning
claritycomprehensibility
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Words with an opposite meaning
unintelligibility
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