illegibility en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
I passed the time by adding to the illegibilities in my diary.
1937, Kenneth Gandar-Dower, chapter 4, in The Spotted Lion, page 144:The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote.
“Poor thing! poor thing!” says Briggs (who was thinking of twenty-four years back, and that hectic young writing-master whose lock of yellow hair, and whose letters, beautiful in their illegibility, she cherished in her old desk upstairs).
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “chapter 15”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:And on the back endpaper of the Collins Clear-Type Shakespeare, a work of fatiguing illegibility, he wrote the names in large letters, as though his succession had already been settled.
1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| illegibilities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Translations (11)
pt ilegibilidade (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read) · fr illisibilité (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read) · es ilegibilidad (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read) · tr okunaksızlık (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read) · mk нечитливост (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read) · ca illegibilitat (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read) · de Unlesbarkeit (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read) · bg нечетливост (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read) · ru нечита́емость (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read) · hu olvashatatlanság (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read) · it illeggibilità (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read)